Church Historian and Recorder

His office gathers history sources and preserves records, ordinances, minutes, revelations, procedures, and other documents.

[2] This office is based on revelations to Joseph Smith calling for keeping records and preparing a church history.

[3] Oliver Cowdery, the first in this position, originally recorded meeting minutes, patriarchal blessings, membership information, priesthood ordinations, and a kind of narrative church history.

Larsen then moved on to other assignments, such as serving in the Temple Department[49] and Area Presidencies[50][51] and was not active in any historical role, though he was still technically the Church Historian until his release from the Seventy in 1997.

[48] While holding the office of Church Historian, and afterward, others succeeded Larsen as Executive Directors of the Historical Department.

Church Historians office ca 1875, across the street from Brigham Young's home, the Beehive House [ 1 ]