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Orson Hyde

  • Country information: Austria

    Jan. 1, 2009: Est. population, 8,210,000; Members, 4,215; Stakes, 2; Wards, 12; Branches, 5; Percent LDS, .05, or one in 1,948; Europe Area; Germany Munich/Austria Mission.
  • Faith, family celebrated in Illinois

    In observance of the 1834 Zion's Camp expedition, the Jacksonville Area Conference of Churches, comprising 12 denominations, gathered for a Family Festival on June 13 at a community park.
  • California Pioneer Heritage Foundation honors re-enactors

    California Pioneer Heritage Foundation President S. Dennis Holland presented 39 members of the Sierra Nevada Mormon Pioneer Re-enactors Group with the foundation's new Distinguished Service Medal at a recent fireside kicking off preparations for this summer's Citrus Heights California Stake youth trek in the Donner Lake area.
  • Law in Joseph Smith's day

    American law in Joseph Smith's day is almost unrecognizable today, because so much has changed, and one must be careful and meticulous in combining the tools, legal research and statutory and documentary analysis in drawing conclusions, said John W. Welch, a professor at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at BYU.