Kip Sperry

	Dept:	Church History
	Title:	Professor of Family History
	Office:	270C JSB
	Phone:	422-5030
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Bio: Kip Sperry is an Accredited Genealogist; Certified Genealogist; Certified Genealogical Lecturer; Fellow, American Society of Genealogists; Fellow, National Genealogical Society; and Fellow, Utah Genealogical Association. He is author of Abbreviations and Acronyms: A Guide for Family Historians; Genealogical Research in Ohio; A Guide to Mormon Family History Sources; Kirtland Ohio: A Guide to Family History and Historical Sources; Reading Early American Handwriting; other books, chapters, journal articles, and faculty advisor for two Internet tutorials, Personal Ancestral File (http://paftutorial.byu.edu) and United States Census (http://census.byu.edu). He has lectured at national, regional, and state family history and genealogy conferences and seminars, including BYU Annual Computerized Genealogy Conferences, BYU Annual Genealogy and Family History Conferences, BYU Campus Education Weeks, BYU-Hawaii, BYU-Idaho, Federation of Genealogical Societies, Mormon History Association, National Genealogical Society, and Sidney B. Sperry Symposiums. He received graduate and undergraduate degrees from BYU and was presented the 2003 Richard Lloyd Anderson Research Award from BYU Religious Education. Biographical sketches appear in Contemporary Authors, Directory of American Scholars, Who’s Who in Genealogy and Heraldry, Who's Who in the West, and other biographical sources. Born in Ohio, he and his wife, Anne, are the parents of one son, Daniel, a medical school student in Syracuse, New York.

Courses Taught: LDS Family History (Genealogy), United States and Canada Family History, Latter-day Saint Temples, English Language Handwriting and Documents (American)—BYU Independent Study

Areas of Expertise: American family history (genealogy), LDS temples, English paleography

Areas of Research: Family history research in Ohio and other Midwestern states, Western Reserve in Northeastern Ohio, New England states, LDS sources, England, Scotland, Isle of Man, British immigration to America, Kirtland, Ohio, and Nauvoo, Illinois

Languages: English

Joseph Smith Building Provo, Utah 84602 801.422.2735

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Kip Sperry