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  • Family history moments: The right number

    A few years ago, I noticed a phone number displayed on my phone caller ID. It was from a chemical company in Alabama. I remember thinking it odd to receive a call from a chemical company but discounted it as someone having simply dialed a wrong number.
    Published: Saturday, Sept. 23, 2006

  • New temple presidents

    John Reid Giles Jr., 67, Birmingham 1st Ward, Birmingham Alabama Stake; called as president of the Birmingham Alabama Temple; succeeding President E. Allen Rich. President Giles' wife, Deann Hickman Giles, will serve as temple matron. Currently serving as a counselor in the Birmingham Alabama Temple presidency, President Giles is a former temple ordinance worker, stake president, counselor in two stake presidencies, high councilor and district president. He is president and owner of Coal Inc. He was born in Morgantown, N.C., to John Reid and Catherine M. Sims Giles.
    Published: Saturday, July 10, 2004

  • Year of transition: Church progresses in many ways

    Appropriate for a millennial year, transition characterized major events in the Church in 2000. The new Conference Center, covering an entire city block, was dedicated at October general conference, having been used for the first time six months earlier for April general conference.
    Published: Saturday, Dec. 30, 2000

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Friend to seven prophets turns 100

Published: Saturday, Nov. 18, 1989

Elder Joseph Anderson, friend of seven prophets and the longest living General Authority in the Church's history, turns 100 years old on Nov. 20. In 1889, the year he was born, Wilford...