Genealogy and Family History Work

At church today, there was a regional broadcast for stake conference. In one of talks, or sermons, there was counsel given concerning doing genealogy and family history work. For me personally I love doing genealogy, because that means I learn something from people who I am directly related to, even for hundreds of years ago, and there is a great love I have for them.
I think when we come to learn of people that we stem from we gain an appreciation of who we are, and even for the things that we have. For instance, I learned a year ago that I go all the way back to Scotland on my father's father's side, and in the middle of that there's Irish; on my father's maternal side we are descendents of French and German immigrants.
There's more of course, but that's just an example. I know on my maternal side I have Swedish ancestors, and ancestors who are from the Southern states, and (probably) fought in the American Civil War for the Confederate Army. I take that position because an ancestor was named after General Robert E. Lee.

Joseph Smith and the Restoration of the Gospel

When Joseph Smith 14 years old, he had serious trouble, wondering about the many churches, "If any one of them be right, which is it, and how shall I know it?" He sought answers from local ministers and preachers of Palmyra, New York. He also sought passage in the Holy Bible. In his own words, he said: "While I was laboring under the extreme difficulties caused by the contests of these parties of religionists, I was one day reading the Epistle of James, first chapter and fifth verse, which reads: If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him." He then expressed the effect that this passage from the Bible had on him: "Never did any passage of scripture come with more power to the heart of man than this did at this time to mine. It seemed to enter with great force into every feeling of my heart. I reflected upon it again and again, knowing that if any person needed wisdom from God, I did; for how to act I did not know, and unless I could get more wisdom than I then had, I would never know; for the teachers of religion of the different sects understood the same passages of scripture so differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question by an appeal to the Bible."
Joseph Smith did venture to "ask of God", continuing from his account: "I retired to the woods to make the attempt. It was on the morning of a beautiful, clear day, early in the spring of eighteen hundred and twenty. It was the first time in my life that I had made such an attempt, for amidst all my anxieties I had never as yet made the attempt to pray vocally. After I had retired to the place where I had previously designed to go, having looked around me, and finding myself alone, I kneeled down and began to offer up the desires of my heart to God.
Joseph Smith receive an answer to his prayer, and again, in his own words: "I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me...When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other--This is My Beloved Son, Hear Him!"
In answer to Joseph's prayer, he saw both God the Eternal Father and His Son, Jesus Christ. This event did occur, and Jesus instructed Joseph to join none of the churches, and that a restoration of His Church would be brought back to the earth.
I know that this account is true, because I have prayed to the Eternal Father about this, and I know it is true by the power of the Holy Ghost.