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New Content on the Joseph Smith Papers Website
The Joseph Smith Papers is pleased to announce its latest web publication. This release completes the planned content for the Financial Records series with the publication of the series introduction and a store daybook from Kirtland, Ohio. The release also includes 127 new municipal documents from Nauvoo, Illinois, including documents from the Nauvoo Legion, the city assessors and collectors, and the city recorder. In addition, the release contains a new featured topic article about the organization of the Church of Christ in 1830 and updates to three other featured topics. Four new documents in the Documents series and new and updated entries in the biographical directory and calendar of documents have also been added.
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About the Joseph Smith Papers Project
Joseph Smith (1805–1844) was the founding prophet and first president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Joseph Smith Papers Project is an effort to transcribe, contextualize, and publish all his writings and teachings, including revelations, translations, letters, discourses, journals, histories, and legal and financial records.
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The Joseph Smith Papers consists of twenty-seven volumes, divided into five series: Documents, Journals, Revelations and Translations, Histories, and Administrative Records; two additional series, the Legal Records series and the Financial Records series, are published online.