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Genealogy and Family History
Family history research consumes more of our time now. We want our grandchildren to discover the ennobling characteristics of their
Mormon pioneer ancestors.
With that goal in mind, I started creating coloring book stories to hand out
at our annual family reunions.
We share these ancestors with thousands of others of their descendants,
many
of whom gathered parts of the genealogical data used here. Relatives are welcome to use these
coloring story books for their own reunions. (You may create links to
this website, but please don't put copies of our coloring books on your
website.)
John White (1836) and Eliza Brown
(1847) (PDF 2.70 MB), "A Story of Mormon Trail Romance" (2002)
Reuben Fowkes (1842) and
Mary Bacon (1842) (PDF 0.60 MB), "Coloring Book" (2004)
Hezekiah Thatcher (1809) and Alena
Kitchen (1808) (PDF 0.95 MB), "From Virginia to California - A Utah Mormon Family's
Experience" (2006)
Jonathan Campbell (1761) and Phoebe Button (1761) (PDF 1.01 MB) "The
Jonathan Campbell & Phoebe Button Clan - Early Mormon Converts" (2007)
James Wanlass (1825) and Margaret Neilson (1821) (PDF 0.69 MB), "James
Wanlass (1825-1895) Mystery, Miner, and Mormon." (2008)
James Wanlass (1847) and Edith
Elizabeth Fowkes (1865) (PDF 1.2 MB), "James (Jimmy) Wanlass who married
Edith Elizabeth Fowkes" (2009)
We also created a web pedigree chart
that shows our Mormon convert ancestors. Ancestors who joined the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as adults have an icon
 after
their name to indicate "convert" and is linked to a brief conversion story
for that ancestor. A crayon 
icon links to coloring story books. A
 icon
links to more historical information about that ancestor.
When I recently discovered Picasa Web Albums, I began posting
thumbnail photos of deceased relatives with captions to the Internet.
In 1989 I devised a novel way of analyzing family history information, which
I called a "family histogram."
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