“A Historian at Work” — an Interview with Ardis E. Parshall
Interviewed by Rachel RueckertHow did you first get involved in genealogy? What sparked the interest?It really started a few months after my mission. My dad, a photographer who had collected family photos since he was very young, called me one night to say he had just discovered the names of two ancestors written on the backs of their pictures (he had long since made copies of all his photos to preserve the originals and for the first time in years was handling the originals). Dad was so excited that I decided to go to the BYU library one evening after […]