Anderson and Bergera document history of those who received temple ordinances in Nauvoo.
- Type
- Book
- Source
- Devery Anderson LDS
- Hearsay
- Direct
- Reference
Devery S. Anderson and Gary James Bergera, The Nauvoo Endowment Companies 1845-1846: A Documentary History (Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2005)
- Scribe/Publisher
- Signature Books
- People
- Devery Anderson, Gary James Bergera
- Audience
- General Public
- Transcription
The Nauvoo Endowment Companies 1845-1846: A Documentary History contains "virtually every primary source regarding the endowment companies and related activities surrounding the Nauvoo temple rituals from December 11, 1845 to February 8, 1846" (p. xxxv).
- BHR Staff Commentary
For records of endowments, sealings, and second anointings performed in Nauvoo prior to the availability of the Nauvoo temple (through the inauguration of ordinances on December 10–11, 1845), along with accounts of prayer circle meetings, see:
Anderson, Devery S., and Gary James Bergera, Joseph Smith's Quorum of the Anointed 1842-1845: A Documentary History (Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books), 2005.
For records of baptism for the dead, see:
Black, Susan Easton, and Harvey Bischoff Black, Annotated Record of Baptisms for the Dead, 1840–1845, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois. 7 vols. (Provo, UT: The Center for Family History and Genealogy, Brigham Young University, 2002) and Cook, Lyndon W., Nauvoo Marriages Proxy Sealings 1843-1846 (Provo, UT: Grandin Book Company), 2004.
No Black Saints living in the Nauvoo, Illinois area (as drawn from the research of Lester Bush in another record) were found to have received ordinances in these records, except Elijah Able's work for two of his family members.
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