Welcome to the Belnap Family Organization
BFO Overview
Mission Statement: “The Belnap Family Organization is a non-profit ancestral family organization for all descendants of Utah Pioneer Gilbert Belnap, created to preserve, perpetuate, and promote family solidarity.”
ABOUT US
The Belnap Family Organization was created in 1904 to preserve, perpetuate, and promote family solidarity among all descendants of Utah Pioneer Gilbert Belnap. It is one of the oldest and largest family organizations in the United States, with over 11,800 known descendants located throughout the United States and around the world.
This Day In Belnap
Family History
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Recent Belnap Family News . . .
- Happy 200th Birthday, Henrietta McBride Belnap!
September 1, 2021 marks the 200th birthday of Henrietta McBride (1821-1899). With over 4,000 known descendants documented in the Belnap Family Organization’s database, Henrietta’s remarkable pioneering influence and talents continue to live on in the lives of her posterity, many of […] - Life of Gilbert Belnap: Part 2–The Conversion Years
Enjoy this second video about Utah Pioneer Gilbert Belnap (1821-1899), featuring the conversion years of Gilbert’s life, beginning in Kirtland, Ohio and ending in Nauvoo, Illinois. This video, which was produced by Gilbert Belnap descendant Ashley Belnap, premiered at the […] - 2020 Belnap Family “Virtual” Reunion Coming Online!
Join us live on Saturday, August 8, 2020, for a “Virtual” Belnap Family Reunion! Learn about DNA and our family history. Details for joining the Zoom meeting are included on the attached photo. We look forward to “seeing” you soon! […] - New Book on American History Features Gilbert Belnap
I’m not in the habit of plugging books–particularly ones I have not yet read–but a just-published book, entitled “Breakaway Americas: The Unmanifest Future of the Jacksonian United States” by Thomas Richards, Jr. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 360 pages), begins with […] - Professorial Relations
Interesting Relations: The Winter 2011 issue of “BYU Religious Education Review” magazine featured the life and legacy of Bryan West Belnap (who went by “West”), former professor and dean of Religious Instruction at Brigham Young University from the early 1950s […] - Macy’s 4th Of July Fireworks Show
Be sure to watch Alexis Warr Burton, fifth great granddaughter of Gilbert Belnap through his daughter Martha Jane Belnap Hammon, perform on tonight’s Macy’s Fourth of July fireworks show!
FAMILY TREASURES
HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS
Have you ever wanted to view–and read–Gilbert Belnap’s actual journal? Click “Learn More” below to access Gilbert’s first journal, which covers his life from his birth in 1821 to 1856, including his journey from Canada to Kirtland, Ohio, where he was baptized in 1841, to his meeting the Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr., in Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1844, to his journey in 1850 to the Salt Lake Valley and settlement in Ogden, Utah.
SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
Click “Learn More” below to read the original handwritten letter from Reuben McBride, dated 1 Nov 1886, Fillmore, Utah, to his sister Martha McBride Knight, regarding his experience as the very first person to be baptized for the dead in the font of the Nauvoo Temple in 1841.
DID YOU KNOW . . .
. . . that Gilbert Belnap’s grandfather, Jesse Belnap (1760-1854), fought in the American Revolution? Learn more about Jesse Belnap, his family, and his military service by clicking “Learn More” below.