Actor Sean Astin, who spoke at the RootsTech conference on Saturday in Salt Lake City, says genealogy has taught him that “work ethic wasn’t just ingrained in me by my mother, but it comes down to our lineage.”
, the genealogical arm of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, hosts the annual conference to help celebrate family and connect individuals with generations of their relatives. More than 328,000 people from 196 countries participated in the online and in-person conference, according to theAstin said he got involved with the conference after FamilySearch sought him out for his temperament and how he related to the public.
“That went into the brain and rattled around for years and years and years,” Astin said. He explained that on his mother’s 40th birthday, she acknowledged that John Astin was not his biological father, and he later found out that his mother’s ex-husband, Michael Tell, was his biological father. “She wrote, ‘It’s the way to learn about the ancestors that live on through me, we are the key to our ancestors, eternal life and through my children, in a way, I’ll live forever — and it’s important to honor that,’” Astin said. “My wife did something right. … The smartest thing I did was let my wife do everything.”told RootsTech attendees that their deepest identities come from their relationships with God — but that the paths of their relatives can “increase our perspective and gratitude.
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