"Joseph Smith III says repeatedly that Lucian Foster made a daguerreotype of his father. The family believed that there was one made, and there have been historians from both traditions (Community ...

“The locket shows up on prominent Smith family women through the years,” Mackay said. Bertha Madison Smith, who married one of Joseph Jr. and Emma’s sons, wore it in a portrait in 186 ...

“and I believe Joseph knows that, too.” Based on 19th-century newspaper quotes and correspondence between LDS and RLDS members, historians and Smith family members long believed that there was ...

That is still the case in the family. Why do you think there’s such eagerness among followers to identify a photograph of Joseph Smith? Because there hasn’t been one. It’s a mystery ...

Smith. “Existing locks of Joseph’s hair match descriptions by those who said it was flaxen, chestnut, or golden brown — colors in the orange family which deceptively appear much darker in a ...

As others look at what Latter-day Saints believe and try to come up with artificial and commercial responses, '1820: The Musical' is meant to characterize Joseph Smith by using records of family ...

"We know exactly what the Joseph Smith and Smith family Y chromosome STR profile looks like," Perego said. "As accurate as if I had Joseph Smith next to me and I would get a swab from him.

The family moved to Sharon in 1804 ... in 1811 and Palmyra, New York, in 1816. Joseph Smith's birthplace in Sharon, Vermont, as photographed in 1907 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons In his ...

Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has been described by Professor Harold Bloom as "an authentic religious genius." He was born into a poor family in 1805 in ...