We went to work for a week at the Family Tree at Park City. The facility is a place for tourists to come and get acquainted with the church and find out about their family.
We worked with a set of Sister Missionaries who are there for their entire six week transfer. We stayed in a really nice apartment on the third floor of the building.
They not only have the family search data base there but also a subscription of ancestory.com. I was able to trace the Webster Line, my Maternal Grand Mothers family, and find that there was three members of the Mayflower party that are part of our family. A feature of the program is to find famous people who are related to you I was able to find that we have ties to Rutherford B Hayes, 6th cousin 4 times removed, Millard Fillmore, 4th cousin 6 times removed, Samuel Adams, 6th cousin 5 times removed, Gerald Ford, 8th cousin 2 times removed. Poet and Writers, Geoffery Chaucer, Hans Christian Anderson, T. S. Elliot, Louisa May Alcott, Agatha Christie, Shelley, Tennyson, and Virginia Woolf. Painters, Thomas Gainsborough, Euene Delacroix, and Norman Rockwell. That is just a start I have five pages of famous people and their relationship to us.
We went to Olympic park. and took some nice pictures. The first one is one the props that were used for the opening ceremony.
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Gainsborough! Delacroix! and Norman Rockwell! Too cool
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