{"id":18065,"date":"2015-02-22T00:55:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T07:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=18065"},"modified":"2015-02-22T00:55:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T07:55:44","slug":"why-family-history-is-exploding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/02\/why-family-history-is-exploding.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Why family history is exploding&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18066\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18066\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/02\/800px-LDS_genealogy_library_slc_utah.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18066\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/02\/800px-LDS_genealogy_library_slc_utah-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"LDS Family HIstory Library, SLC, UT\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Church\u2019s Family History Library in Salt Lake City<br>(Click to enlarge.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ldsmag.com\/why-family-history-is-exploding\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/ldsmag.com\/why-family-history-is-exploding\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a very good time for family history research. \u00a0Things are easier, and resources more plentiful and accessible, than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an excellent time to get involved, or to ramp up your involvement.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 http:\/\/ldsmag.com\/why-family-history-is-exploding\/ \u00a0 It\u2019s a very good time for family history research. \u00a0Things are easier, and resources more plentiful and accessible, than ever before. \u00a0 It\u2019s an excellent time to get involved, or to ramp up your involvement. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Why family history is exploding&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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