Dr. Justin Dyer, Dr. Michael Goodman, and Dr. Mark Ogletree, Department of Church History and Doctrine Academic Objectives Met The project met several academic objectives. The first was to collect the initial round of data for the Family Foundations of Faith project. Data were collected from over 600 families and were cleaned and prepared for […]
The Papers of Jay Jensen and the Japan First Mission
Academic objectives of our research project have been extremely successful. Several of our students produced papers from our research and presented them at a regional conference of the Association for Asian Studies. One of our students published her essay in the Religious Education student journal and won an award for her contribution. We have produced […]
Utah Territory in Official Civil War Records
Kenneth L. Alford, Church History and Doctrine Evaluation of how well the academic objectives of the proposal were met The purpose of this project was to find, transcribe, assemble, categorize, organize, edit, and publish (both a printed version and an electronic database version) the official records relating to Utah Territory’s involvement in the Civil War. […]
MEG Grant Final Report 2014-2015
Robert P. Minert, Ph.D., A.G., Religious Education In 2013, I was awarded a mentoring grant under the MEG program for calendar years 2014-2015. The grant was for $20,000, all money stipulated for use as student wages. Advanced students of Germanic family history and German language were hired to extract data on German immigrants from old […]
German Immigrants in American Church Records
Dr. Roger Minert, Church History and Doctrine The funding sought and granted under the MEG program was to be used to continue a project begun in September 2003 under the title “German Immigrants in American Church Records.” To date, some 60 students have contributed to this research designed to identify German, Austrian, and Swiss immigrants […]
History of the Church in Brazil
Dr. Mark Grover, Harold B. Lee Library During the months of April and May, 2010, a project to document the history of the LDS Church in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, and Minas Gerais, Brazil was undertaken. The project was directed by Mark L. Grover and financed by a Mentor’s […]