The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' own Church History Library research guide for the Relief Society, giving a dated organizational timeline drawn from the Church's institutional and archival records, including the Society's 1892 incorporation as the National Woman's Relief Society and its 1945 change of legal status and name. As the institution's own custodial history office, it is the correct source for the Society's own organizational and legal record; a claim about how outside historians assess that record is better drawn from independent Mormon studies scholarship alongside it. A continuously maintained archival guide, it carries no single publication year.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' own Church History Library research guide for the Relief Society, the middle tier reflecting the institution's own custodial history office as the correct source for its organization's dated legal and organizational record, weighed against the ordinary limit that how outside historians assess that record is better drawn from independent Mormon studies scholarship alongside it. NotesChurch History Library organizational research guide for the Relief Society; used here for the 1892 incorporation as the National Woman's Relief Society and the 1945 change to unincorporated status under the Church's own name for the Society.
Citation
AuthorChurch History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
PublisherThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
URLhttps://churchhistorylibrary.churchofjesuschrist.org/guides/relief-society-organization?lang=eng
Source Typecustodian
Custodian
Custodian SourceYes
Custodian BodyThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Custodian BasisThe Church's own history library, publishing an organizational timeline and finding aid for the Relief Society drawn from its own archival and institutional records, including the Society's 1892 incorporation and 1945 change of legal status.
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- Sources, 10 claims: 10 well-attested.
- Organizations, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
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