My grandmother, Barbara Taylor Darrington, was the genealogical buff of the family. I remember playing around on her microfilm viewer that the church provided for her extraction work when I was a little tot. Of course, in my little mind, I hadn't the slightest idea what it was used for, but now I've come to appreciate its function as a family historian. Grandma Darrington was the sources of my desire to pursue family history. After her death, my family inherited the mountainous paper masses that she accumulated. Among the stacks of pedigree charts, family group records, and photographs were these copies of documents pertaining to John Darrington.
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| John Darrington, certificate of citizenship; Box Elder County, Utah, 8 October 1878, copy of original. |
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| Box Elder County, Utah Territory Marriage Certificate, John Darrington and Sarah Jane Lowe, 23 November 1879, copy of original. | |
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| Cache County, Utah Territory Marriage Certificate, John Darrington and Sarah Mariah Perry Stokes, 5 November 1890, copy of original. |
There's just something about having the actual document (or copy in this case) in your hands. The tangible proof of an ancestor's life and death brings them to life.
These are really neat documents that you have to share. On the marriage certificate is the signature of James Z. Stewart. He helped my great-grandfather translate the Book of Mormon into Spanish. Also, who are the parents of Sarah Stokes? My grandmother is a stokes and was born in Burley Idaho.
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