Keiko Teshima Fuller Is Guided to an Unknown Cemetery in Japan — and Finds Her Ancestors
Published September 28, 2026 at 10:39 PM

Contributed by
Todd Morgan
Beaumont, CA, 92223
Many miracles happen to aid individuals in pursuing their personal family histories. In an issue of the Church News, Keiko Teshima Fuller told how she returned to her ancestral home in Japan to seek information about her ancestors.
After finding nothing in official records, local libraries, and cemeteries, she gave up and was driving away empty-handed when she became lost and somehow drove past a cemetery she did not know existed. From the car window she saw a familiar name on a tombstone, stopped, and found many markers with the information she sought.
Elder Oaks cited her experience as an example of the miracles that attend the Church's family history work.
Sources & References
Dallin H. Oaks, “Miracles,” Ensign, June 2001, https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2001/06/miracles. The account was originally published as Keiko Teshima Fuller, “Treasure in Tombstones,” Church News, 18 Mar. 2000.
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