{"id":80237,"date":"2018-06-29T10:42:56","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T14:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80237"},"modified":"2018-06-29T10:42:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T14:42:56","slug":"byu-students-search-for-families-of-missing-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80237","title":{"rendered":"BYU students search for families of missing troops"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stars & Stripes <\/a>reports that Brigham Young University’s Center for Family History and Genealogy is helping DPAA search for the families of soldiers who were missing from America’s wars overseas.<\/p>\n

The process of finding those relatives, though, is a difficult one. Jill Crandell, who oversees BYU’s family history center and its efforts on the project, said there’s often little information to start with. It’s sort of like if Sherlock Holmes were trying to solve a case blindfolded.<\/p>\n

And the genealogical researchers are essentially working in reverse. Instead of building a family tree back in time for several generations, they’re trying to build it forward to today. They’re finding the living through the name of the dead.<\/p>\n

“There’s just enough clues for us,” Crandell said.<\/p>\n

BYU, a private university, is owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which has a dedicated genealogical division and operates FamilySearch (one of the world’s largest databases for family records). That’s why the military chose the school for its project. It’s the only college of the 19 participating to focus on finding living relatives for missing soldiers; the others specialize in anthropology and archaeology.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

The BYU team \u2014 five students, a fellow and Crandell \u2014 worked on a case in which the mother of a soldier continued to set a plate at the dinner table each night for her son, who was missing in action. They also spoke to the 97-year-old widow of a WWII soldier who still wants to know what happened to her husband. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If I remember correctly, the BYU’s Genealogy department exists so that Mormons can search for antecedents and make them Mormons. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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