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Official LDS church website outlining the mission, history and life of the Prophet Joseph Smith. Also included are witnesses and reminiscences of the Prophet, Joseph Smith historic sites in New York (his birthplace), Pennsylvania (where the priesthood was restored), Ohio (where the first LDS temple was built in Kirtland), Missouri (Zion's Camp, Far West, Liberty Jail), and Illinois (Nauvoo and Carthage Jail--the place of Joseph Smith's martyrdom).

August 4, 2005 - Lucy receives a generous wedding present from her father and mother. The newlyweds, Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy (Mack) Smith live on a handsome farm in Tunbridge, Vermont from their marriage in January 1796 until 1802.

August 11, 2005 - Lucy falls sick with a heavy cold and a high, life-threatening fever. She pleads with the Lord to spare her life, and covenants with God that if he will let her live, she will endeavor to get that religion that will enable her to serve him right. She hears the voice of Christ and is comforted.

August 18, 2005 - Covering the period from fall 1802 to late spring 1803. Joseph Smith Sr. (father of the Prophet Joseph Smith) is defrauded in a business venture and is forced to sell the family farm to pay debts. Lucy gets a visit from her brother Jason.

August 25, 2005 - Lucy (Mack) Smith, mother of the prophet Joseph Smith, dreams of two beautiful trees: one representing her husband, Joseph Smith Sr., and the other representing her brother-in-law, Jesse Smith. "I thought that I stood in a large and beautiful meadow, which lay a short distance from the house in which we lived, and that everything around me wore an aspect of peculiar pleasantness. The first thing that attracted my special attention in this magnificent meadow was a very pure and clear stream of water which ran through the midst of it; and as I traced this stream, I discovered two trees ..."

September 1, 2005 - (Covering the period from summer 1803 to late summer 1812.) Lucy (Mack) Smith recounts the first two of seven significant dreams of her husband, Joseph Smith Sr. ... "About this time my husband’s mind became much excited upon the subject of religion; yet he would not subscribe to any particular system of faith, but contended for the ancient order, as established by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and his Apostles ..."

June 8, 2005: In keeping with the spirit of this season of bicentennial celebration of Joseph’s birth, beginning today, (and with the permission and blessings of Deseret Book Company), we will publish the entire history in serial form on Meridian. This history has not been serially published in over a hundred years. We wish that every member of the Church could and would read this history. It is inspiring, powerful, heart-rending and unique. Where else in history do we have a major world leader’s biography written by his mother? It’s rare indeed and it’s a first-rate history.

Editors’ Introduction (Part 1 of 3): It was the bleak midwinter of 1844–45, only months since her sons Joseph and Hyrum had been murdered by a gloating mob at Carthage Jail, when Lucy Mack Smith sat down to tell her life story to a twenty-three-year-old scribe named Martha Jane Knowlton Coray ...

June 9, 2005: The Editor's Introduction continues today with a discussion of the controversy over the 1853 edition of Lucy Mack Smith’s history of Joseph Smith, which was called Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, and His Progenitors for Many Generations.

Editors’ Introduction (Part 2 of 3): For eight years after its completion in 1845, the manuscript remained unpublished, pushed aside by other priorities. In 1852 Apostle Orson Pratt, on his way to a mission in England ... purchased it [the manuscript] for a certain sum of money, took it to Liverpool with him, where, without re­vision and without the consent or knowledge of President Young or any of the Twelve, it was published under his direction in 1853. Questions about Lucy Mack Smith's book had been simmering in the minds of the Brethren for several years before 1865, when Brigham Young decided to recall it. When Lucy sat down with Martha Jane [Coray] in 1844, she certainly had no idea of the controversy that would sizzle around the simple recounting of her life’s story ...

June 10, 2005: This is the third and final installment of the Introduction to The Revised and Enhanced History of Joseph Smith by His Mother.

Editors' Introduction (Part 3 of 3): The Editors, Scot Facer Proctor and Maurine Jensen Proctor, explain why this revised and enhanced edition was necessary and point out its features.

June 23, 2005: This chapter contains extracts from the writings of Solomon Mack, father of Lucy (Mack) Smith, the prophet's mother. This brief biography includes his early military service, his marriage to Lydia Gates and service in the Revolutionary War, and his final devotion to God and family.

June 30, 2005: Before he [Jason] attained his sixteenth year, he became what is termed a seeker, a believer in the power of God manifest through the medium of prayer and faith ... At the age of twenty he became a minister of the gospel. Shortly after this, he became enamored with a beautiful and wealthy young woman by the name of Esther Bruce ...

July 7, 2005: A story of two sisters who were one in faith, in love, in action, and in hope of eternal life.

July 14, 2005: The remarkable life of Stephen Mack, Revolutionary War soldier; successful businessman of Tunbridge, Vermont; a pioneer developer of Detroit and Pontiac, Michigan. A moral man, a man of business and a man of most intrepid courage in the defense of his country.

July 21, 2005 - Lucy Mack (Smith) gives a brief history of three of her father's (Solomon Mack's) children: Lucy's sister Lydia Mack | Lucy's brother Daniel and his courage in saving three men from drowning | Lucy's youngest brother Solomon Mack. This concludes Lucy's account of her father's family.

July 28, 2005 - Lucy (Mack) Smith gives a brief account of her early years up to the time of her marriage to Joseph Smith Sr.