Acknowledgments

Hundreds of people have contributed to this new history of the Church, and we are grateful to each one of them. We are indebted to the generations of Latter-day Saints who meticulously collected and preserved the records on which this book is based. We thank especially the many living Saints who shared their stories with us and whose names appear in the book.

Special thanks to David Golding, Taunalyn Ford, James Goldberg, David Grua, Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye, Robin Jensen, Jessica Nelson, Jennifer Reeder, Ryan Saltzgiver, Jonathan Stapley, and Amber Taylor for creating the Church History Topics and Global Histories articles that supplement Saints. Thanks also to Hannah Johnson Lenning and John Heath for assisting with the images that accompany the digital version of this book. The digitization of sources was led by Audrey Spainhower Dunshee, Trevor Wylie, Scott Marianno, and Natalie Johnson Pearmain and completed by staff of the Church History Department’s Access Services team.

Dozens of staff members, missionaries, and volunteers in the Church History Department contributed directly or indirectly to this book. In particular, we thank the following for their research contributions or for offering feedback on draft material: Jeff Anderson, Jay Burrup, Clint Christensen, Christine Cox, Wayne Crosby, Emily Marie Crumpton, Christian Fingerle, Matthew Heiss, James Miller, Alexander Nunez, Norbert Ounleu, Melanie Riwai-Couch, Javier Romero, Jeremy Talmage, Tyson Thorpe, Soyolmaa Urtnasan, and Todd Welker in the Archives and Area Support Division; Ben Godfrey in the Audience Needs Division; Doris R. Dant, Brett Dowdle, David Grua, Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye, Robin Jensen, Jonathan Stapley, Sheridan Sylvester, and Amber Taylor in the Publications Division; Jenny Lund, Chad Orton, Benjamin Pykles, Ryan Saltzgiver, Ryan W. Smith, and Emily Utt in the Historic Sites Division; and Justin Bray, Keith Erekson, Matthew Godfrey, and Brandon Metcalf in the Research and Outreach Division. We thank Catherine Reese Newton, Laura Rawlins, Kathryn Burnside, McKinsey Kemeny, Hannah Johnson Lenning, Keaton Reed, Kate Staker, Stephanie Steed, Sam Lambert, Ashley Skinner, and Jessica Anne Lawrence for editorial contributions; Brenda Homer, Benjamin Whisenant, and Sharley McCorristin for assistance with intellectual property and permissions; and Sylvia Coates for indexing the volume.

Many expert readers reviewed chapters or parts of chapters. These include William Acquah, Ralph Addy, James B. Allen, Jeffry Allred, Silvia Allred, Michelle Wright Amos, Olivia Barlow, Betty Jean Baunchand, Severia Baunchand, Dennis Beck, Maeta Holiday Beck, Riley Berones, Lilly Binene, Willy Binene, Brent Bonham, Georges A. Bonnet, Matthew Bowman, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Marilyn Rolapp Brinton, R. Lanier Britsch, Stanley Warren Bronson, Tracy Y. Browning, Tobias Burkhardt, H. David Burton, Milton Camargo, Olga Kovářová Campora, Joe Chelladurai, Michael Colemere, Felicindo Contreras, Veronica Contreras, Ahmad S. Corbitt, Virginia Hinckley Pearce Cowley, Michelle D. Craig, Celia Ayala de Cruz, J. Anette Dennis, Jill Mulvay Derr, Ann Monson Dibb, Geoffrey Dunning, Suzette Towse Dunning, Allen Erekson, Sharon Eubank, Angela Peterson Fallentine, Ike Ferguson, Garry Flake, David Galbraith, Matthew Garrett, Sariah Goury, Darius Gray, Casey Griffiths, Angela Hallstrom, Alice Johnson Haney, Laura Harper, Steven C. Harper, J. B. Haws, Emma Hernandez, Hector David Hernandez, Greg Hill, Laura Paulsen Howe, James Jacob, Daniel K Judd, Arthur Jue, Daniel Jue, Ardeth Greene Kapp, Allwyn Kilbert, Farina King, Raymond Kuehne, Le My Lien, Emily Limb, Laudy Kaouk Lindsey, Anne Lu, Steven J. Lund, Ken Macey, Juan Machuca, Louise Paulsen Manning, Marcus Martins, Patrick Mason, Carl Maurer, William Maycock, Neylan McBaine, David McCombs, Elizabeth Manning McCombs, Mary McKenna, Blake McKeown, Kara McKeown, Scott McKeown, Wade McKeown, Khumbulani Mdletshe, Kahlile Mehr, Tarienne Mitchell, Consuelo Wong Moreno, Ronald Mortensen, Silvina Mouhsen, Paula Muti, Manuel Navarro, Corine Jue Neumiller, Eugene Orr, Bonnie L. Oscarson, Alan Osmond, Jay Osmond, Michael Otterson, Bonnie D. Parkin, Eryn Phillips, Anne C. Pingree, Carolyn Rasmus, Delia Rochon, Isabel Santana, Manfred Schütze, LuAnn Snow, Franck Yohann Sokora, Maridan Sollesta, Seb Sollesta, Marie Taylor, Nguyen Van The, Ruth Todd, Juliet Toro, Richard E. Turley Jr., Lorine Jue Turnbull, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Claudia Villavicencio, Marco Villavicencio, Gád Vojkůvka, Kathleen Wan, Stanley Wan, Annaliese White, Bradley R. Wilcox, Steve Williams, and Kazuhiko Yamashita. We thank Casey Olson, Brian Garner, Benjamin Peterson, and Matt Lund of the Correlation Department’s Evaluation Division as well as their review committee members. We also thank Derek Roughton, Renee Furgeson, and Jeffrey Mahas for assistance with oral histories; and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Judith Romo, Sherida Marshall, and Bonnie Linck for assistance with translation of research materials.

John Heath, Debra Abercrombie, and Matt Rasmussen contributed to publicity and outreach. Brooke Jurges provided administrative expertise, and Jo Lyn Curtis and Cindy Pond offered additional support.

Many members of the Publishing Services Department assisted in the publication process, including Cathy Cooper, Katie Parker, Patric Gerber, Ivan Gavarret, Preston Shewell, Andrea Bird, Bret Morris, Benson Y. Parkinson, Michael Wright, and Travis Stevens. Other contributors include Alan Paulsen, Paul VanDerHoeven, David Morris, Michelle Karrick, and Dragonfly Editorial. Translators carefully prepared the entire text in thirteen languages. Jen Ward coordinated printing of the books by the Materials Management Department.

We especially thank Elders Marlin K. Jensen, Steven E. Snow, and LeGrand R. Curtis Jr., emeritus General Authority Seventies who each served as Church Historian and Recorder and who believed in the Saints project and did much to foster it. We thank Elder Kyle S. McKay, present Church Historian and Recorder, for his guiding hand on the project.