Joseph's Translation

I just noticed that they are starting to purge documents (even ones spoken by the current GA's) that exmormons have quoted.  I don't want to turn this blog into a church facts site or anything I just don't want to lose this one.

This document has been moved once and I don't want it to disappear completely. You can no longer search for "joseph" and "hat" anymore on LDS.org (or at least, it won't return this document).

So I found the article and took screen shots just so we don't lose it forever.

Here is one of the places where a GA explains how Joseph didn't read the plates, he put a stone in his hat and read words with his face buried in it.  This is one of the things that most bummed me out when finally researching church history.  

This talk will be removed eventually.

Apparently they also recently removed the marriage dates from several of Joseph's wives from FamilySearch.org because they didn't like showing the 14 and 16 year ages of them.  Ugh, revisionist history.  In fact, if you find Joseph Smith, it won't show his other "wives" at all, you have to search for them specifically to see them.

Hopefully someone else can grab that data.