LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The Mormon church has a legacy of keeping some of the most detailed records of American history, particularly history surrounding former slaves in the United States. FamilySearch ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is in need of help indexing records. It’s partnering with the Smithsonian and others to digitize records from the Freedmen’s Bureau. Local churches, ...

PROVO — Ancestry.com has teamed up with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on a genealogical project that will bring generations of family names and genealogical research online within ...

CINCINNATI -- Earlier this month, FamilySearch International, the genealogical arm of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, turned over a newly indexed database of records of the Freedman’s ...

On the 150th anniversary of "Juneteenth," the final freeing of slaves after the Civil War, the LDS Church announced Friday a project to emancipate from obscurity key records of about 4 million former ...

On the 150th anniversary of “Juneteenth,” the final freeing of slaves after the Civil War, the LDS Church announced Friday a project to emancipate from obscurity key records of about 4 million former ...