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If you want to know whether Mormon founder Joseph Smith ever met, mentioned or mentored your ancestor, the answer now is just a few clicks away.

FamilySearch International, the largest genealogy organization in the world, has teamed up with the LDS Church History Department to create a joint website where users can search for their family members in any Smith document.

"Using the power of FamilySearch.org and the scholarship of the Joseph Smith Papers Project, descendants of early church members can now connect to original source documents where their own progenitors are mentioned," Steven E. Snow, church historian and recorder, said in a news release. "Seeing our ancestors in the original papers will provide insight and inspiration as we see how our own lives intersect with the sacred history of the church."

Because the Joseph Smith papers have been digitized, the release said, a computer search easily can match names from the documents to names in a family tree on FamilySearch.org.

And there are many, many names in Smith documents.

"The majority of the papers that were written by the Prophet Joseph Smith or written on his behalf were about people," Reid L. Neilson, managing director of the Church History Department, said in the release. "These people have living descendants. Now you can see how your ancestor once interacted with the prophet of the restoration."

The Joseph Smith Papers Project is an ongoing project of the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whose purpose is publish all documents, the release said, created "by Smith, or by staff whose work he directed, including journals, revelations and translations, contemporary reports of discourses, minutes, business and legal records, editorials and notices."

FamilySearch is sponsored by the LDS Church as a nonprofit, volunteer-driven organization. Its services are free and open to the public.

Peggy Fletcher Stack