Our Mission
The Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith Foundation is a not for profit foundation established for the purpose
of finding descendants of Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith and discovering, preserving and making known our
rich ancestral heritage.
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Activities to accomplish the purposes of the Foundation include:
- Researching family history
- Conducting and coordinating genealogical research and making it available to family members
- Communicating to family members through letters, newsletters, etc.
in print and over the Internet
- Identifying and cataloging family artifacts, memorabilia, etc. and assuring their preservation
- Holding periodic family gatherings
- Assisting and promoting smaller family groups to organize and meet in their own regional locations.
Learn how to create your own foundation:
- Maintaining the Smith Family Cemetery in Nauvoo
- Collecting dues (currently suggested as $25 per family per year)
- Making regular financial accountings to the family
- Participating in other family projects as appropriate
If you would like to know how we specifically accomplish these goals or how you
can help, please see the Committee section of the
Organization page to contact your family representative
or a member of the Coordinating Committee.
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"Wherefore, my dear children, I pray, beseech, and adjure you by all the relations and
dearness that hath ever been betwixt us and by the heartrending pangs of dying father whose soul hath been
ever bound in the bundle of life with yours, that you know one another. Visit as you may each one another...
if possible, once every year...or if you cannot meet, send to and hear from each other yearly and oftener if
you can; and when you have neither father nor mother left be so many fathers and mothers to each other, so you
shall understand the blessings mentioned in the 133 Psalm."
Asael Smith, father of Joseph Smith Sr.
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