“Freedmen’s Bureau Project: Connecting African Americans with Civil War-Era Ancestors”

“Freedmen’s Bureau Project: Connecting African Americans with Civil War-Era Ancestors”

 

Elder Christofferson speaking about Freedmen's Bureau Project in LA
Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles speaking on Friday at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles
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This is a fantastic effort to recover the family histories — and the history generally — of African-Americans in the period just after Emancipation and extending back before:

 

http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/historic-freedmen-records-released

 

I’m very, very happy that the Church is doing this.

 

 


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