Organization
The Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith Foundation serves as an umbrella organization for several
individual family organizations. Efforts of the Foundation serve to coordinate resources and activities
for the benefit of the entire family. The Board of Trustees oversees and
directs these efforts. The Coordinating Committee meets three times a year
to report on progress, plan ongoing efforts, and discuss strategies for reaching out to the members of the
family that we don't currently have contact with. Many of the individual
Smith Family organizations have committees and
web sites that support their efforts to
reach out to family members. These web sites are linked together and leverage a
common genealogical database
hosted by the Foundation.
The Foundation organization fosters communication in the family as well as provides for standards and teamwork,
which create efficiencies and synergies that are realized as we work towards our common goals.
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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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