Family History Moments – Osmond Family’s Focus… ARE WE RELATED?
By Alan on Feb 27 in Blog tagged a to z, alan, Alan Osmond, are we related, Clayton and Ethel Brough, cousins, Donny, Donny Osmond, Family History, focus, genealogy, George and Olive Osmond, George Osmond Sr., Hi Cousin!, http://osmond.com, Jay, jimmy, Jimmy Osmond, LDS Tabernacle Choir, Marie, Merrill, moments, Mormons, Osmond Family, Osmond family history representatives, Osmond Research and Extraction OProject, surname, temple work, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Family, The Osmond Family, Tom, Virl, Wayne | Comments Off
Family history moments: Family’s focus
For decades the Osmonds have sung and performed for people around the world. In July 2008, all nine siblings of the famous Osmond family — Virl, Tom, Alan, Wayne, Merrill, Jay, Donny, Marie and Jimmy — performed together with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir during two evenings of Pioneer Day celebrations in the LDS Conference Center. However, even when performing in different parts of the world, this large family has always taken time to focus on families, including trying to locate distant cousins and performing temple work for their deceased ancestors and relatives.
The Osmonds’ love of family history and temple work was instilled in them when they were young. Their parents, George and Olive Osmond, contributed countless hours toward genealogy and temple work, and involved their children in this “eternal work” as much as possible. As the mother of the world-famous singing family, Olive Osmond was constantly on the go. Yet, wherever she went she was continually answering and sending family history letters, compiling and directing genealogical research work, devising and suggesting new ways to enter family data into computer programs, and constantly encouraging relatives and her worldwide audience to become more involved in genealogy and family history.
As Alan Osmond has said, “My mother taught her children how to do family research, and we published our family history in several magazines and on various websites.” In 2008 the Osmonds traveled around the world on their 50th Anniversary World Tour, and according to Alan, “We would greet the audiences from the stage as, ‘Hi, Cousin! How Are We Related?’”
We have since linked to our Osmond Family History site at http://osmond.com and have some SURNAMES that you might recognize and be related to us!
CLICK if any of these top names look familiar:
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If not, Click on the first letter of your SURNAME!
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If you think we are related or might be, send me an email with your contact information HERE: alan@thefamily.com
My brother Donny Osmond has likewise stated, “I inherited the love of genealogy from my mother and have fond memories of doing research with her and sharing our ‘finds’ together. I know that my mother has now been united with those ancestors she became familiar with while doing her genealogy work.”
Today, Donny supports a worldwide Osmond Research and Extraction Project, while Alan oversees Osmond-related temple work and maintains a family history website at www.osmond.com.
And recently, Jimmy Osmond — while performing in England — took the time to dedicate the grave of his great-great-grandfather, George Osmond Sr.
Indeed, it can be said that the dedication of the Osmond siblings to family history and temple work started when they were very young, for they were taught by their parents the importance and blessings that come from being involved in such “eternal work.”
— Clayton and Ethel Brough, Osmond family history representatives, West Jordan, Utah.
….http://www.broughfamily.org/grc.html
….(Also related to the Osmonds!)
….Strengthening The Family
Are We Related ? A Very Quick Check Here:
By Alan on Feb 20 in Blog tagged a thousand years, are we related, check here, Family, Osmond | Comments Off
Are you related to the Osmond Family?
Click the first letter of your Surname and see:
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We are always looking for our family and relatives. We have found many all over the world.
You don’t have to be an Osmond to be related! If you find that you are related to someone on our http://osmond.org Family History site, please email me and tell me how and we’ll tag up!
Thanks cousin!
Alan Osmond
alan@osmond.com
Get these Family History Books HERE:
Father’s Day – “Turn The Hearts Of The Children To The Fathers”
By Alan on Jun 19 in Blog tagged are we related, Elijah the Prophet, genealogy work, hearts of children to their fathers, Joseph Smith, Temples, The Family, theFamily | 1 Comment
WE CALL THIS GENEALOGY WORK
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Are we related?
Are some of our great grandfathers also your great grandfathers?
Go to http://osmond.org
Sign in – and then Click on the top right that says SURNAMES.
You will see an A to Z list. Click on the letter that begins with your Last name.
Do you see your name? If so Click on it!
Here are all of the names we have so far of our deceased ancestors.
We all are brothers and sisters – even, children of God.
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The family unit is fundamental not only to society and to the Church but to our hope for eternal life.
We can expect that God won’t just tell us a few interesting things about the family; he will tell us what a family ought to be and why. Further, we know that our Heavenly Father and his Son, Jesus Christ, want us to become like them so that we can dwell with them forever in families. We know that from this simple statement of their intent: “This is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man” (Moses 1:39).
“And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.” Mal. 4: 6
“The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead. The apostle says, ‘They without us cannot be made perfect’ Hebrews 11:40
“It is necessary that those who are going before and those who come after us should have salvation in common with us; and thus hath God made it obligatory upon man. Hence, God said, ‘I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.’
Elijah the prophet has already returned!
The Prophet Joseph Smith said that Elijah held the sealing power of the Melchizedek Priesthood and was the last prophet to do so before the time of Jesus Christ. He appeared on the Mount of Transfiguration with Moses and conferred the keys of the priesthood on Peter, James, and John (Matt. 17:3).
He appeared again, with Moses and others, on 3 April 1836, in the Kirtland Ohio Temple and conferred the same keys upon Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery (D&C 110:13–16).
All of this was in preparation for the second coming of the Lord, as spoken of in Malachi 4:5–6.
“And now, my dearly beloved brethren and sisters, let me assure you that these are principles in relation to the dead and the living that cannot be lightly passed over, as pertaining to our salvation. For their salvation is necessary and essential to our salvation, as Paul says concerning the fathers—that they without us cannot be made perfect—neither can we without our dead be made perfect. Doctrine and Covenants 128:15–18, 22, 24:
Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? Why are they then baptized for the dead? 1 Corinthians 15:29
It is sufficient to know, in this case, that the earth will be smitten with a curse unless there is a welding link of some kind or other between the fathers and the children, upon some subject or other—and behold what is that subject? It is the baptism for the dead. For we without them cannot be made perfect; neither can they without us be made perfect.
“… Let us, therefore, as a church and a people, and as Latter-day Saints, offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness; and let us present in his holy temple, when it is finished, a book containing the records of our dead, which shall be worthy of all acceptation.” 1
Happy Father’s Day !
Alan Osmond
For The Family
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