If not Mormonism...
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 9:54 pm
All lines of my ancestry ended up in Mormonism before I was born into it (BIC).
One ancestral strand was living in Hancock County IL since 1833 joined in JSJr era, after the Mormons migrated to the nearby Commerce (soon to be known as Nauvoo). They did not leave for Utah until 1847 (having in 1845) given their only wagon and team to one of the then 'apostles' to enable him to make the trip with the group BY led.
Three other separate ancestral strands joined up in England in the 1860s and migrated to Utah shortly thereafter.
Two other separate ancestral strands joined in Denmark in the 1870s and migrated to Utah shortly after that.
The last strands were Presbyterian until my grandmother joined Mormonism in the 1940s.
I've wondered about the personality proclivities and the times and circumstances of these various ancestral conversions. I've wondered what other groups they might have ended up joining if not Mormonism.
(Of course, I realize that my specific genetic make-up would never have come to be, as it would defy all odds to think that in the absence of Mormonism that all of them would have joined some other group and moved to be where they would have married and produced children.)
Maybe some of you TBMs and mopologists might just chalk my existence as I am to a 'perfect storm' of genetic convergence and the time in which I came to be. But I have mused, what might have been but for Mormonism.
One ancestral strand was living in Hancock County IL since 1833 joined in JSJr era, after the Mormons migrated to the nearby Commerce (soon to be known as Nauvoo). They did not leave for Utah until 1847 (having in 1845) given their only wagon and team to one of the then 'apostles' to enable him to make the trip with the group BY led.
Three other separate ancestral strands joined up in England in the 1860s and migrated to Utah shortly thereafter.
Two other separate ancestral strands joined in Denmark in the 1870s and migrated to Utah shortly after that.
The last strands were Presbyterian until my grandmother joined Mormonism in the 1940s.
I've wondered about the personality proclivities and the times and circumstances of these various ancestral conversions. I've wondered what other groups they might have ended up joining if not Mormonism.
(Of course, I realize that my specific genetic make-up would never have come to be, as it would defy all odds to think that in the absence of Mormonism that all of them would have joined some other group and moved to be where they would have married and produced children.)
Maybe some of you TBMs and mopologists might just chalk my existence as I am to a 'perfect storm' of genetic convergence and the time in which I came to be. But I have mused, what might have been but for Mormonism.