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Posted by: the one and only ( )
Date: May 14, 2013 09:59AM

Can someone please link me to the family search page that lists js wives? I can't seem to find it. How do you search for him on there?

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Posted by: elciz ( )
Date: May 14, 2013 10:13AM

You have to seach by the wife's name. They've tried to make it more difficult to find the wives by de-linking the search through Joseph Smith's name. I haven't looked for a while, maybe they've even taken away that avenue.

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Posted by: omreven ( )
Date: May 14, 2013 10:15AM

Not family search, but this might be useful:

http://www.wivesofjosephsmith.org/

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Posted by: jackjoseph ( )
Date: May 14, 2013 11:12AM

It's annoying. They're constantly updating that site, changing the links, and making it harder to find Joseph Smith. I really think it's to keep all the links to Joseph Smith's wives stale ...

- Go to familysearch.org
- Click on "Search" (the text link on top, not the button thing on bottom)
- You should be here: https://familysearch.org/search
- Now you're in "Records", click on "Geneaologies" on top (now you should be here: https://familysearch.org/family-trees)
- Name: Joseph Smith, Father: Joseph Smith, Mother: Luck Mack
- Search
- Don't click on the "Joseph Jr. Smith Prophet" ancestry file, it says Emma was his only wife.
- Scroll down further until you find the "Joseph Smith Jr.-Prophet" ancestry file.
- And here are (some) of his wives: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/995N-B25
- (Notice Helen Mar Kimball says she was born in "about 1820" so it doesn't look like she was just 14 when she married him).

It's unbelievable how hard they try to hide all this stuff. Really makes me angry.

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Posted by: Satan Claus ( )
Date: May 14, 2013 12:09PM

You can actually make all sorts of changes and set up all sorts of people on FamilySearch. There is no one Joseph Smith that is the "official" one that I know of. However, if you do a search in the Family Tree, for Joseph Smith born in 1805 in Sharon, Windsor, Vermont, United States with father Joseph and mother Lucy, the top result is this:

https://familysearch.org/tree/#view=ancestor&person=KWJY-BPD

If you look at his spouses for this individual you see that Helen Mar is born in 1828 and was "married" to JS in 1842. A bit more accurate.

You can find other Joseph Smiths who have all the right info for him as an individual (birth, death, wife Emma, etc.) but have incorrect spouse data.

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Posted by: the one and only ( )
Date: May 14, 2013 01:45PM

Thanks so much.

We were having a discussion at my in laws and mh hubby got upset when I said js had 33 wives. Its amazing how much crap they are willing to belive. I think I may have outed myself a little more than I was ready to. Oh well though maybe I will just send them the ces letter.

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