Kip Sperry

KIP SPERRY is Professor Emeritus of Family History in the Department of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, where he taught American and LDS genealogical research methods and sources for over twenty-five years. His books include Kirtland, Ohio: A Guide to Family History and Historical Sources, Genealogical Research in Ohio, and Reading Early American Handwriting.

Sperry received the 2014 Harvey B. and Susan Easton Black Outstanding Publication Award and the 2003 Richard Lloyd Anderson Research Award from BYU. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists, Fellow of the National Genealogical Society, and Fellow of the Utah Genealogical Association, as well as an Accredited Genealogist, Certified Genealogist, and Certified Genealogical Lecturer.

Kip lives in Provo, Utah.

Kip Sperry’s books are published by Ancestry.com, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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