User:Kip Sperry BYU

Kip Sperry was born in Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio, graduated from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, and is a professor of Church History and Doctrine at BYU where he teaches American and LDS genealogical research methods and sources. Kip is an Accredited Genealogist and is a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists, National Genealogical Society, and Utah Genealogical Association. He received the Richard Lloyd Anderson Research Award in March 2003, the Harvey B. and Susan Easton Black Outstanding Publication Award in March 2015, and has received other awards and honors, written family history books, chapters, and journal articles, and has lectured at national, regional, and local family history conferences and seminars. Kip is author of “Nauvoo and Hancock County, Illinois: A Guide to Family History and Historical Sources" (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014). Kip enjoys teaching family history and genealogy, researching, writing articles and books, playing golf, swimming, traveling, and searching for his ancestors. Kip and his wife, Anne, reside in Orem, Utah. They have one son, Daniel K. Sperry, MD, a family practice physician residing in Midvale, Utah.