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Summarized by Kent Larsen
First family history fireside to be Friday, March 3
BYU NewsNet 1Mar00 D3
By Emily Cannon: NewsNet Staff Writer
PROVO, UTAH -- BYU's Department of Church History and Doctrine will
sponsor its first Family History Fireside on Friday night, featuring
Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Presidency of the First Quorum of
the Seventy. The fireside will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, March
3rd in the Joseph Smith Building auditorium on BYU's campus. The
fireside is open to the general public, according to department chair
Raymond Wright.
Elder Christofferson also serves as executive director of the LDS
Church's Family History Department and as trustee of the Genealogical
Society of Utah. The fireside is an opportunity to motivate students
to research their family history and help them understand the
importance of providing temple ordinances for their ancestors. "The
fireside will provide motivation to all students to become involved
in family history and temple work, even if they have only a few
minutes a week to devote to it," Wright said.
"This is a unique opportunity to listen to the general authority
charged with responsibility for family history in the church," Wright
said. He says Elder Christofferson regularly visit's BYU's campus to
learn about BYU's family history activities and classes,
Elder Christofferson visits campus regularly to learn about the
family history activities and is an enthusiastic supporter of the
family history classes, Wright said. He notes that BYU students have
access to the second largest family history library in the world --
located in the Harold B. Lee Library at BYU. The LDS Church's main
Family History Library in Salt Lake is also easy for BYU students to
get to. Each semester about 900 students enroll in Religion 261,
Introduction to LDS Family History while another 100 students take
other family history classes.
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