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Idaho LDS genealogy center thriving, being remodeled

Andrew Weeks The Times-News (Twin Falls, Idaho)

Last updated Monday, June 4, 2012 - 11:45am

TWIN FALLS, Idaho -- With the stroke of a keyboard and the click of a mouse, John Cox brought up whole generations of research.

"Who's an ancestor you'd like me to search?" he asked, sitting at a computer desk in his Twin Falls home.

I thought about it a moment, then gave him a name. A few minutes later we found my ancestor - and his parents. We traced the line back to the early 1800s within 45 minutes.

"That's the thing I love about genealogy, finding out about our ancestors," said Cox, director of the Family History Center in Twin Falls.

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Deer hunting got off to a slow start in Idaho region this year, hunters say, but picked up later

Andrew Weeks Times-News

Last updated Monday, November 14, 2011 - 4:05pm

TWIN FALLS, Idaho -- Jordan Beard stood in his game room -- detached from the rest of his Twin Falls home -- talking about how he bagged the animals mounted on the walls and shelves.

A stately caribou from Alaska, a mountain lion from Utah, a couple of mule deer from Idaho. He took one of the deer heads off the wall, a four-point buck he harvested last year in the South Hills. He recently got back the finished mount from Intermountain Taxidermy and Worldwide Adventures in Twin Falls.

This is a man crazy about hunting. But he didn't go at all this year.

Sure, Beard was busy. But the late start to 2011's fall weather was a discouragement -- and not just for Beard.

Deer seasons were off to a slow start this year, according to Idaho Department of Fish and Game and area hunters. And weather was a big factor.

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