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|L1=Question: How did Joseph Smith use his seer stones as a youth?
 
|L2=Question: Did Joseph place his seer stone in his hat while looking for lost objects?
 
|L3=Question: How many seer stones did Joseph Smith have in his possession?
 
|L4=Question: What did Joseph Smith's seer stones look like?
 
|L5=Question: How were Joseph Smith's seer stones involved in the translation of the Book of Mormon?
 
|L6=Question: Why did Joseph eventually stop using the seer stones to receive revelation?
 
|L7=Question: Are there any Biblical parallels to Joseph's understanding of the use of seer stones?
 
|L8=Question: What happened to Joseph Smith's seer stones?
 
|L9=Gardner: "Joseph Smith, long before golden plates complicated his position as a local seer, appears to have functioned just as Sally Chase did"
 
|L10=Godfrey: "Martin found a rock closely resembling the seerstone Joseph sometimes used in place of the interpreters and substituted it without the Prophet’s knowledge"
 
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{{:Question: How did Joseph use his seer stones as a youth?}}
 
{{:Question: Did Joseph place his seer stone in his hat while looking for lost objects?}}
 
{{:Question: How many seer stones did Joseph Smith have in his possession?}}
 
{{:Question: What did Joseph Smith's seer stones look like?}}
 
{{:Question: How were Joseph Smith's seer stones involved in the translation of the Book of Mormon?}}
 
{{:Question: Why did Joseph eventually stop using the seer stones to receive revelation?}}
 
{{:Question: Are there any Biblical parallels to Joseph's understanding of the use of seer stones?}}
 
{{:Question: What happened to Joseph Smith's seer stones?}}
 
{{:Source:Gardner:Joseph the Seer:2009 FAIR Conference:long before golden plates complicated his position as a local seer}}
 
{{:Source:Kenneth W. Godfrey:A New Prophet and a New Scripture:Ensign:January 1988:Once Martin found a rock closely resembling the seerstone}}
 
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====Other mentions in Church materials====
 
Similar material is also found in other Church publications, some of which are included below:
 
* {{Ensign1|author=Richard Lloyd Anderson|article=[https://www.lds.org/ensign/1977/09/by-the-gift-and-power-of-god?lang=eng ‘By the Gift and Power of God’]|date=September 1977|start=79}}
 
* Hyrum Andrus, ''Joseph Smith, the Man, the Seer'' (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Company, 1960), 102. {{GL1|url=http://gospelink.com/library/contents/815}}
 
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* {{BYUS|author=Marvin S. Hill|article=Money-Digging Folklore and the Beginnings of Mormonism: An Interpretative Suggestion|vol=24|num=4|date=Fall 1984|start=?|end=??}}{{GL|url=http://gospelink.com/library/document/90430}}
 
* {{IE1|author=Francis W. Kirkham|article=The Manner of Translating The BOOK of MORMON|date=1939}} {{GL1|url=http://gospelink.com/library/document/68715}}
 
* Joseph Fielding McConkie, Craig J. Ostler, ''Revelations of the Restoration: A Commentary on the Doctrine and Covenants and Other Modern Revelations'' (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Co., 2000), D&C 9. {{GL1|url=http://gospelink.com/library/contents/1199}}
 
* {{JBMS-2-2-14}}<!--Ricks-->
 
* {{DFS1|article=A Brief Debate on the Book of Mormon|vol=1|start=350}}{{GL1|url=http://gospelink.com/library/doc?doc_id=205446}}
 
* {{BYUS1|author=Royal Skousen|article=Towards a Critical Edition of the Book of Mormon|start=52|date=Winter 1990|vol=30|num=1}}{{GL1|url=http://gospelink.com/library/document/90737}}
 
 
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