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The Utah Genealogical Association (UGA) is a non-profit genealogical society charted by the State of Utah on December 1, 1971. [1]
The UGA currently publishes a quarterly journal, Crossroads which was preceded by the Genealogical Journal. Back copies are available to members through the website. [2]
In 1991, the Genealogical Journal published a pair of articles detailing the broad extent of Gustave Anjou's fraudulent genealogies. [3] [4]
The Family History Library (FHL) is a genealogical research facility in downtown Salt Lake City. The library is open to the public free of charge and is operated by FamilySearch, the genealogical arm of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The University of Georgia is a flagship public national sea-grant, space-grant, sun-grant, and land-grant research university with its main campus in Athens, Georgia. Founded in 1785, it is one of the oldest public universities in the United States.
The University of Georgia School of Law is the prominent law school of the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. Ranked among the top-tier law schools in the United States, it was founded in 1859, making it among the oldest American university law schools in continuous operation.
A family history society or genealogical society is a society, often charitable or not-for-profit, that allows member genealogists and family historians to profit from shared knowledge. Large societies often own libraries, sponsor research seminars and foreign trips, and publish journals. Some societies concentrate on a specific niche, such as the family history of a particular geographical area, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Lineage societies are societies that limit their membership to descendants of a particular person or group of people of historical importance.
FamilySearch is a nonprofit organization and website offering genealogical records, education, and software. It is operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and is closely connected with the church's Family History Department. The Family History Department was originally established in 1894 as the Genealogical Society of Utah (GSU) and is the largest genealogy organization in the world.
Gustave Anjou was a self-professed genealogist who prepared hundreds of fraudulent pedigrees. His first name is sometimes spelled Gustav.
Signature Books is an American press specializing in subjects related to Utah, Mormonism, and Western Americana. The company was founded in 1980 by George D. Smith and Scott Kenney and is based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The University of Georgia Press or UGA Press is a scholarly publishing house for the University System of Georgia. It is the oldest and largest publishing house in Georgia and a member of the Association of American University Presses.
Gary Mokotoff (born April 26, 1937) is an author, lecturer, and Jewish genealogy researcher. Mokotoff is the publisher of AVOTAYNU, the International Review of Jewish Genealogy, and is the former President of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS). He is the creator of the JewishGen's Jewish Genealogical Family Finder and the Jewish Genealogical People Finder. He co-authored the Daitch–Mokotoff Soundex system. Mokotoff is co-author of Where We Once Walked: A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust.
The Georgia Bulldogs are the athletic teams that represent the University of Georgia. The female athletic teams are sometimes referred to as Lady Bulldogs. The Bulldogs compete in NCAA Division I and are members of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The official mascot is an English Bulldog named Uga,, while the costumed character version of Uga is Hairy Dawg.
Josiah Meigs was an American academic, journalist and government official. He was the first acting president of the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, where he implemented the university's first physics curriculum in 1801, and also president of the Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences. His grandson was Major General Montgomery C. Meigs.
James Brown "Jim" Allen is an American historian of Mormonism and was an official Assistant Church Historian of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1972–1979. While working as Assistant Church Historian, he co-authored The Story of the Latter-day Saints with Glen Leonard. After Ezra Taft Benson dismissed the book as secular new history, other events led to the dissolution of the LDS Church History department in 1982. Allen resigned as Assistant Church Historian in 1979, returning to work at Brigham Young University (BYU) full-time.
Richard Eyring "Rick" Turley Jr. is an American historian and genealogist. He previously served as both an Assistant Church Historian of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and as managing director of the church's Public Affairs Department.
The Association for Mormon Letters (AML) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1976 to "foster scholarly and creative work in Mormon letters and to promote fellowship among scholars and writers of Mormon literature." Other stated purposes have included promoting the "production and study of Mormon literature" and the encouragement of quality writing "by, for, and about Mormons." The broadness of this definition of LDS literature has led the AML to focus on a wide variety of work that has sometimes been neglected in the Mormon community. It publishes criticism on such writing, hosts an annual conference, and offers awards to works of fiction, poetry, essay, and criticism. It published the literary journal Irreantum from 1999 to 2013 and currently publishes an online-only version of the journal, which began in 2018. The AML's blog, Dawning of a Brighter Day, launched in 2009. As of 2012, the association also promotes LDS literature through the use of social media. The AML has been described as an "influential proponent of Mormon literary fiction."
The Classical Journal (CJ) is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of classical studies published by the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
Political Research Quarterly is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the field of political science. The editor-in-chief and American politics field editor is Seth C. McKee. Field editors: Toby J. Rider, international relations; Frank C. Thames, comparative politics and gender politics; Sophia Jordan Wallace, race, ethnicity and immigration; David Lay Williams, political theory and philosophy.
The Pratt family is made up of the descendants of the Mormon pioneer brothers, Parley Parker Pratt and his brother Orson Pratt, whose father was Jared Pratt (1769–1839). It has many members in Utah, and other parts of the U.S. There are many branches of the Pratt family, such as the Romney Family and the Huntsman family.
The Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering public administration and public policy studies. It was established in 1991 and is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Public Management Research Association, of which it is the official journal. The editor-in-chief is Mary K. Feeney. Associate Editors are: Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen (UtrechtU), Deneen Hatmaker (UConn), George Krause (UGA), Susan Miller (USC), Stephanie Moulton (OSU), Michael Siciliano (UIC), David Suárez (UWash), Anders Ryom Villadsen (AarhusU). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 3.907, ranking it 2nd out of 47 journals in the category "Public Administration". Previous editors include Brad Wright (UGA), Craig Thomas (UWash), Carolyn Heinrich (Vanderbilt), Beryl Radin (Georgetown), Stuart Bretschneider (ASU).