Patriarchal Blessings

If you didn't know, on the church's website you can order your ancestor's Patriarchal Blessings. Go to lds.org, click on "Tools", scroll down to "Patriarchal Blessing request a copy" and click. It will ask you to sign in, if you don't have a user name and password, then you can sign up for one using your membership number. Once you sign in you can request a "copy of own blessing" or "copy of direct-line ancestor's blessing".

You will need to know:

Deceased ancestor name

Deceased ancestor maiden name

Birth date of deceased ancestor (Example: 6 Aug 1968)

Relationship to deceased ancestor

Deceased ancestor's Father's full name, If you do not know it, please enter "unknown"

Deceased ancestor's Mother's full name, If you do not know it, please enter "unknown"

Patriarch who gave blessing

Stake in which blessing was received

Approximate year blessing was given (Example: 1950 or 1950-1960)

Comments

I requested my Grandma Jensen's and it came in the mail today.

If you are not a member of the LDS church, a Patriarchal Blessing is "given to worthy members of the Church by ordained patriarchs. Patriarchal blessings include a declaration of a person's lineage in the house of Israel and contain personal counsel from the Lord. As a person studies his or her patriarchal blessing and follows the counsel it contains, it will provide guidance, comfort, and protection." In the Old Testament, Genesis 48:14, (King James Version, btw, it's the 400th birthday of the KJV of the Bible), Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it upon Ephraim’s head. So PB's are not new, but I'm not sure other churches have continued this practice. Some people call PB's their personal scriptures since they are straight from Heavenly Father. Now that I am on this genealogy kick, it's kinda fun to get these to find out what Heavenly Father had in store for my ancestors.