Mormon family organizations (i.e., family organizations or associations) are entities created by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) to accomplish the basic purposes of family life as understood within the church, in order to establish and strengthen family unity and identity across multiple generations.
Purpose and organization
In 1978 the church asked all families to organize themselves at three levels: as "immediate" families, "grandparent," and "ancestral."[23] Individual or immediate families are regularly encouraged to hold weekly Family Home Evening and participate in family councils. More formal family organizations consist of the descendants of a common ancestor. The purposes of such family organizations may include coordinating family efforts in promoting welfare, education, conducting family history research, holding reunions, compiling family newsletters and publications, and other family-related LDS practices.[24][25] Commemorating family heritage and legacy is another typical purpose and activity for family organizations.
Organizations (alphabetized by male progenitor surname)[edit]
- A
- Allred Family Organization (William Allred)[38]
- Milo Andrus Family Organization[39]
- B
- Israel Barlow Family Association[40]
- Barton Family Organization (John Barton)[41]
- Belnap Family Organization (Gilbert Belnap/Adaline Knight/Henrietta McBride)[42]
- Bennion Family Association[43]
- Braithwaite Family Organization[44]
- Brough Family Organization[45]
- Orson Pratt Brown Family[46]
- C
- Anson Bowen Call Family Organization[47]
- William Cazier and Pleasant Drake Family Organization[48]
- Ezra Thompson Clark Family Organization[49]
- Moses Clawson Family Organization[50]
- Phineas Wolcott Cook Family Organization[51]
- Myron E. Crandall Family Organization
- E
- F
- H
- Hale Family Organization[56]
- Hanks Place (Ephraim Hanks)[57]
- Nathan Harris and Rhoda Lapham Family[58]
- John and Jane Hayes of Clonakilty Family Organization[59]
- Joseph Leland Heywood[60]
- Patriarch Thomas Hicken Family Organization[61]
- John N. Hinton Family Organization[9]
- Abraham Hunsaker Family Organization[62]
- J
- Benjamin F. Johnson Family Organization
- George and Ann Prior Jarvis Family Association[63]
- K
- Heber C. Kimball Family Association[64]
- Knaphus Family Organization (Torleif S. Knaphus, sculptor)[65]
- L
- Christopher Layton Family Organization[9]
- Leavitt Family Organization (Thomas Leavitt)
- John Doyle Lee Family Association [66]
- M
- Alexander Findlay Macdonald Family[67]
- Karl G. Maeser Family Organization
- John Marriott Historical Society[68]
- Maughan Family Organization (Peter Maughan)
- Daniel McBride and Abigail Mead Family[69]
- Joseph Stacy Murdock Family Organization[70]
- N
- Alexander Neibaur Family Organization[71]
- O
- Osmond Family Organization[72]
- P
- John Pack Family Association[73]
- Packard Family Organization (Forrest Packard)[74]
- Sanford Porter Family Organization[75]
- Jared Pratt Family Association[32]
- R
- Henry Rampton Family Association[76]
- John Hardison Redd and Elizabeth Hancock Family Organization[77]
- Charles C. Rich Family Association
- Thomas E. Ricks Family Association
- S
- Justus Azel Seelye Family Organization[78]
- Jesse N. Smith Family Association[79]
- Joseph Smith, Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith Family Association[80]
- Joseph Smith, Jr. Family Organization[81]
- Joseph F. Smith Family Association[82]
- Samuel Harrison Smith Foundation[83]
- Erastus Snow Family Organization
- Sorensen Family History Organization (Nicolai Sorensen/Magdelena Olsen)[84]
- John Martin Steiner Family Organization[85]
- Edward Stevenson Family Organization
- Joseph Stout Family Organization
- T
- Theodore Turley Family Organization[89]
- W
- John Fleming Wakefield Family Organization[90]
- John Walker Family Organization[91]
- John Henry Owen Willcox Family Organization[92]
- Workman Family Organization (John Workman)[93]
- Y
- Brigham Young Family Association[94]
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