August 10, 2016
Salt Lake City

Today we took a trip into downtown Salt Lake. Our goal was to see the various Mormon museums, temples, and other buildings.

We started off going to the Family History Museum, also called the Genealogical Society of Utah.

This is the location where "The Church" keeps all their records and people are allowed to come research their ancestry....for free. We walked in and had that deer in the headlights look and a very nice Sister came over and explained the facility to us and then spent 15-20 minutes showing us how to access family records.

Marilyn found a high school yearbook picture of her Dad when he was 14.

The research area is just a large room with 30 - 40 computer terminals

They also have a Church (Mormon) History Museum...

Then we walked over to the Temple grounds. This building had some beautiful gardens.

Here is the temple up close. They were actually having a wedding at the time and they were taking pictures of the bride and groom from in front of these doorways.

This is a picture from inside the Tabernacle. They had a viewing box for people to see inside without actually going inside. They had a seating area and a large glass window. When we were there they were having an organ practice session.

This is the Visitor Center.

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 and they had some beautiful wall paintings.

Here is a shot of the Temple....

and the Tabernacle from the outside...

It was a very beautiful and interesting place. Apparently in the winter the trees and garden areas are filled with Christmas lighting.