By Alan on May 04 in Blog tagged alan, Donny, George, Jay, jimmy, Marie, Merrill, Olive, Osmond, Osmond Brothers, Osmonds, Tom, Virl, Wayne | Comments Off

Happy Birthday Mother.

We long for us all to be together.

Because you and Father married for time and for all eternity

we,  your children, were sealed to you forever.

When this world fulfills its purpose and glory

and Jesus returns to us once again.

We will all be back together as a family.

It’s how everyone’s story should end.

We Love You
and remember you this day.

The Osmond Family
For The Family

By Alan on Apr 13 in Blog tagged alan, DAVIS, DNA, Donny, England, Family History, genealogy, George, Jay, jimmy, Marie, Merrill, More, Olive, Osmond, Osmond Brothers, Osmond Girls, Osmonds, Second Generation, Tom, Virl, wales, Wayne | 2 Comments

The Osmond Family Has Moved!!!

Well, at least The Osmond Family’s website for Family History has moved!  
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We moved The Osmond Family’s website for Family History to:

www.osmondfamily.org, and is now up and running!  It contains more up-to-date information about their Osmond and Davis family history than any other site or source online.   We hope that you all will take a moment to inform family, friends and others–through your various social media and website links as well as by  word of mouth around the world so they can learn more about the Osmond and Davis family heritage.

How are you related?  Find out!

We are all God’s kids!

OFO Email: officer@osmondfamily.org

Love,

Clayton and Ethel Brough
Family History Specialists
(And also family relatives!)

For The Family

By Alan on Jun 15 in Blog tagged alan, Alan and Suzanne osmond, army lead, as He did, barrack, challenges, church, dedication died, education, eight boys, eternal, example, Family, family life, forever, George, George and Olive Osmond, good meals, help others, impacted, Jesus Christ, knowledge, lare family, Like Father, Like son, live again, love, love at home, loving home, married, memories, nurtured, order, organization, Osmonds, osmonds second generation, parallel, passed away, point the way, prayer, regimentation, respect, righteous, role model, same way, showed me, Sons, spirit, spirit world, Suzanne Pinegar, tender, The Family, traditions, truth, watched him, worked hard | 2 Comments

Father’s Day – “Like Father, Like Son”

“Having been born of goodly parents”, I was blessed to be the third member of a family of eight sons and one daughter of George and Olive Osmond.  We grew up in the town of Ogden, Utah with fond memories of a wonderful family life.

My Mother, Olive, was so kind and tender as she nurtured us children.  She love to cook and taught us music in a most wonderful and loving home.  Her parents were both educators and my mother would have been too, but she fulfilled her first priority and married my father and had a large family.  Because she loved education, she asked my father to build a schoolroom in the attic of our home where she used her skills as a teacher and theologian to teach us children many truths.

My Father was my hero and my role model.  We called him “Father” out of respect and I wanted to be like him when I grew up.  I was by his side when he built, plumbed, wired, and remodeled homes as a great carpenter. I watched him and was by his side when he milked cows, hauled hay, irrigated the orchard and fields, or as we stamped and packaged postal items at the post office that he had.  Father also loved to sing.  I sat behind him while he was driving the car and as we sang together, he would sing in harmony with Mother.   That was how I learned to sing harmony.  Learning that skill truly impacted my life.   Father taught me how to fish, to hoe sugar beets and how to drive the tractor and haul hay.  He always involved my brothers and me in his work projects and led by example.  He always stood by us when the going got tough or was challenging.  You see, Father had been an army sergeant and knew how to lead men.  Several evidences of that training showed up in how he raised our sister Marie and us eight boys.

One example of that was when we got older and our home needed more bedrooms.  Father decided to build on to the back of our house and built what he called, a dormitory.  Yes, you are right, it was like an army barrack with seven military  metal framed army cots and blankets, foot lockers at the end of the beds, and open closets where our clothes needed to be neatly hung and arranged as there where regular inspections that occurred.  He knew how to lead and train military men in the army so like them, Father taught us in many of the same ways and how to have order.  Some neighbors had asked him if the way he was raising his kids wasn’t ‘regimentation’.  He would just smile and respond back saying; “I look at it as organization.”

I remember many times when he helped friends by serving them.  My Father and Mother were always doing things to help others.  They started the Osmond Foundation to raise money for deaf children, two of which were my older brothers.  This was a pattern of my father and I wanted to be like him,  “Like Father, Like Son.”  He was a hard worker and organizer and gave freely of his time in headed up several fundraising projects within the church and the community.

Like my father, I too, found and married the most wonderful girl in the world, Suzanne Pinegar, and she is my eternal partner.  Suzanne has blessed me with eight wonderful
sons.  As a father, I tried to raise them the best I knew.

I can look back and see a parallel in many of the same ways and traditions that I learned from my father.  Those patterns and traditions of life now exist among us as a family with our sons and their families.  Yes, they honor me and call me Father and they have learned to work hard and to never give up.  Yes, they also love

music and have excelled in it masterfully.  I told them to get “real jobs” and they did get good educations with a love to learn.  Yes, they love the out of doors like I did as a son and are all Eagle Scouts.  Seven of them so far have served full time missions and have returned and married.  Yes, they grew up in a home with respect, order, good cooking, love, and with religious convictions that honors our Lord Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father.  We learn from Jesus’s example that even what He did, was as His Father has done; “Like Father, like Son”.

This Father’s Day, I reflect back on my father’s life and how much he showed me by example the way to be and to become.  He taught us to be positive and to never give up when we were challenged and would say, “You can do it”.  He also taught us that “You can be what you want to become, if you become what you want to be.”  He was hard working yet a righteous man with a tender “marshmallow” heart”, as my mother would say, as he blessed his family and took us all to church.  He served in the bishopric and held several other church callings in which he blessed others.  We never had a meal together without first having a word of prayer and giving thanks and blessing the food.  We always had family prayer at night and even before every show that my family and I did later when we became entertainers.  When major decisions were made, we would counsel with the Lord together in kneeling family prayer seeking inspiration and giving thanks.  This was the way we grew up because it was the way he did.

 I remember the day my mother passed away and which was a hard thing and then not long after that when my father died.  It is not easy to see them go but it is those times when the knowledge of that they had taught us gave us the understanding that we would live again and be with them.  When my Father died, I was the first one to be by his side.  I saw him lying cold and still on his bed.  His body was there but my Father’s spirit wasn’t.  I shed some tears and held his hand as I offered a prayer of gratitude to my Heavenly Father.  I thanked Him for giving me the greatest earthly father I could ever have and for the good man that he was.  It was then that I honestly started to smile as I knew he was now once again with my Mother in the Spirit world.  I looked at him and said, “Father, save me a place, up there.”

Some day, I too, will graduate and do as my Father, my Savior, and my God have done, and live on eternally.  ”Like Father, Like Son”.

Alan Osmond
For The Family

By Alan on May 12 in Blog tagged alan, Donny, George, Jay, jimmy, Marie, Merrill, Mother's Day, Olive May Davis Osmond, our Mother, The Family, theFamily, Tom, Vera Ann Davis, Virl, Wayne | 3 Comments

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The last picture is of

Olive with her Mother, Vera Ann Davis and a new grandchild, unidentified.

Mother and Grandmother Olive … went to the Spirit World on Mother’s Day, May 9th, 2004.

“For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.” Matt. 12: 50

Virl Osmond

For The Family

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By Dennis Adamson on Dec 26 in Blog tagged America, editor, England, Family, George, Grandfather, Great, Idaho, Mission, Mormon, Osmond, pioneer, President, Senator, Stake President, Wives, Wyoming | 6 Comments

Dennis Adamson reports:

I snowshoed to the ’North Pole’ today.

It was nearly buried with snow.  I didn’t see Santa, but he had already been to those areas where it is Christmas already.

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We had to cross a stream about 4 times.

I was beginning to think that we were crossing the Sweetwater River like the pioneers.

I figured that if I got stranded I would crawl under the big pine tree where there was little snow and make a camp.

I was sure pretty and peaceful up there.  It was above Tibble Fork Reservoir, up the road beyond the reservoir, over a foot bridge and up a canyon.

Reported by:

Dennis Adamson

Writer / Photographer

For The Family

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.Dennis’s adventure reminds me of my Great Great Grandfather, George Osmond Jr. and his traveled from England to America with hard times with bitter cold.

(Continued By: Alan Osmond)

George Osmond Jr. was born in London, England, on 23 May 1836/1837, as the son of George Osmond Sr. and Nancy Ann Canham. George Osmond Jr. joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Lattter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon Church) in London in 1851, and emigrated to the United States in 1855.

In 1855, George Osmond married Mary Georgina (Georgiana) Huckvale in St. Louis. Missouri, and they eventually settled in Idaho where they were the parents of ten children.

In 1881, George Osmond married his second wife, Christena Amelia Jacobsen, and they eventually settled in Wyoming where they were the parents of seven children.

George Osmond Jr. served two two-year missions to England – from 1884 to 1886 and 1890 to 1892.  He was a successful farmer, rancher and businessman, a probate judge in Idaho, a state senator in Wyoming, and a beloved LDS Stake President of Star Valley, Wyoming from 2892 until his death in 1913.

This story continues about my Great, Great, Grandfather Osmond and others are now found in a Family History Book that we just released called,“Osmond Ancestry And Genealogies” which can be purchased HERE.

Our Pioneer ancestors history can teach us many things to help us in our hard struggles today.  When they believed in something, they became their values and principles which they followed with all their heart.  “When the going got tough…the tough got Going!” They helped one another and loved their neighbors as themselves.  Though there were physical and spiritual “TESTS”…they worked together and overcame them!  Those “TESTS” are NOW “TESTIMONIES”to us that God Lives and that with Faith, Hope, and Charity, we can and MUST “Endure To The End”!  We are facing the same challenge today!

NOTE:

The family is ordained of God. Marriage between man and woman is essential to His eternal plan. At certain times and for His specific purposes, God, through His prophets, has directed the practice of plural marriage (sometimes called polygamy), which means one man having more than one living wife at the same time. In obedience to direction from God, Latter-day Saints followed this practice for about 50 years during the 1800s but officially ceased the practice of such marriages after the Manifesto was issued by President Woodruff in 1890. Since that time, plural marriage has not been approved by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and any member adopting this practice is subject to losing his or her membership in the Church.

More?

Alan Osmond

By Alan on Dec 11 in Blog tagged alan, ancestry, DAVIS, Donny, Family, genealogy, George, history, Jay, jimmy, Marie, Merrill, Olive, Osmond, To, Virl, Wayne | Comments Off

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?’

” 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, www.osmondgenetree.com. ( or http://osmond.org)  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.

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