Category: Modern Microfilm and UTLM
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Sandra Tanner Retiring — Utah Lighthouse Bookstore Closed
By Sandra Tanner 2022 has turned out to be a monumental year. I sold my house that I had lived in since 1964 and moved to a townhouse in Sandy, Utah, in preparation for my retirement in May of 2023. Now the ministry is engaged in disposing of our inventory and furnishings, and the bookstore…
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Sandra and Jerald Tanner Biography: Lighthouse (Parts 1-2)
Discussing the new biography about the Tanners Sandra and Doris Hanson talk about some of the high points in the Tanner’s saga of researching Mormonism over 60 years.
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First Date Prank
Sandra tells about flirting and playing a prank on Jerald Tanner during their first dinner together at her grandmother’s house (on April Fool’s Day).
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Last Salt Lake City Messenger
A farewell message as the Utah Lighthouse Ministry closes its doors, and an excerpt from the biography about the Tanners: Lighthouse.
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Mormonism’s History of Hiding Documents
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is more open about its history these days, but the past was very different. Sandra Tanner tells of difficulties in trying to access historical documents when she (and late husband, Jerald) began researching Mormon history in the 1960s, and how some amount of guardedness still persists in…
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Trademark Lawsuit (archive page)
This page archives information about a trademark lawsuit that the Utah Lighthouse Ministry had to file in 2005.
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Jerald Tanner’s Quest for Truth – Part 3
By Ronald V. Huggins This last of our three-part series examining the life and research of Jerald Tanner, focuses on the integrity Jerald brought to his research of Mormon historical documents. The previous two parts of this series can be found in Salt Lake City Messenger nos. 108 and 109, which dealt with Jerald’s initial…
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Appeal Rejected (Trademark Lawsuit)
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the lower district court’s ruling against our trademark lawsuit concerning the domain name registration and use of our business and personal names.
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Jerald Tanner’s Quest for Truth – Part 2
By Ronald V. Huggins Jerald TannerJune 1959 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight…
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Ministry Files Appeal (Trademark Lawsuit)
March 26, 2007, U.S. District Judge Dale A. Kimball ruled against our claims of trademark infringement and in favor of Allen Wyatt, Scott Gordon and FAIR (Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research) in the use of 10 domain names— utahlighthouseministry.org utahlighthouseministry.com utahlighthouse.org utahlighthouse.com sandratanner.org sandratanner.com jeraldtanner.org jeraldtanner.com geraldtanner.org geraldtanner.com —in conjunction with a fake site…