More Early LDS

Follow-up for last night’s DearMYRTLE’s Salt Lake Study Group includes a request to provide a listing of websites that reference early LDS pioneers. This is by no means an exhaustive list. Please also see Kip Sperry's A Guide to Mormon Family History Sources, published by Ancestry.

Brigham Young University Special Collections

Brigham Young University Digital Library

Daughters of Utah Pioneers

Dixie State College Special Collections and Archives

Early LDS: A Mormon Trail Pioneer Database Be sure to see the Master Index of books used in this online index. This page also lists a number of other websites.

Early LDS Hymns

Journals, Diaries, Biographies and Autobiographies of Some Early Mormons and Others Who Knew Joseph Smith, Jr. and/or His Contemporaries (searchable).

Don Snow’s Class Handouts, see especially The Nauvoo Databank. This is the directions for how to use the Nauvoo Databank text file.

LDS Church History Archives and Library

Tracing Mormon Pioneers lists titles in book, microfilm and fiche format at the Family History Library. See also Ship Resources page has some specific information related to the voyage across the ocean and finding ship rosters. Special resources are available for those who emigrated from England, Scandinavia, Australia, or South Africa.

Council Bluffs, 1846-1852 (map)

Mormon Battalion - The U.S. Mormon Battalion, Inc.

Mountain West Digital Library

Sons of the Utah Pioneers

Southern Utah University Special Collections

Sperry, Kip. “Latter-day Saint Records” Ancestry Magazine, 2001.

University of Utah Special Collections

University of Utah Digital Collections

Utah State Historical Society

Utah State University Special Collections and Archives

Utah State University Digital Library

Weber State University Archives and Special Collections

Weber State University Digital Collections

Winter Quarters: Church Headquarters, 1846-1848 by Richard E. Bennett.

Winter Quarters Project at BYU

Ancestry has a number of online databases which may prove useful. Membership is required, unless you can view these through the Ancestry Library Edition at the Family History Library.
· A genealogy of Charles Carlson and Caroline Marie Haas, Utah immigrants
· Beaver County, Utah Census, 1900
· Beaver County, Utah Deaths, 1900-05
· Box Elder County, Utah Certificates of Citizenship Record Books, 1868-1869
· Box Elder County, Utah Mining Notices of Location, 1889-1893
· Box Elder County, Utah Mining Records, 1890-1892
· Broad Ax (Salt Lake City, Utah)
· Cache County, Utah Civil Case Files, 1860-1887
· Color Country Spectrum (Saint George, Utah)
· Daughters of Utah Pioneers and Their Mothers
· Daughters of Utah Pioneers Obituary Scrapbook
· Davis County, Utah Divorce Case Files, 1875-1886
· Davis County, Utah Divorce Registers of Actions, 1877, 1880
· Early history of Duchesne County : preserved by the Duchesne Chapter of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers
· Emery County, Utah Census, 1910
· Garfield County, Utah Federal Census, 1910
· Grantsville, Tooele County, Utah Cemetery, 1846-1999
· Henry Mining District, Sevier County, Utah, 1883-1896
· History of Iron County Mission, Parowan, Utah
· History of Sanpete and Emery Counties, Utah : with sketches of cities, towns and villages, chronology of important events, reco
· History of the Scofield mine disaster : a concise account of the incidents and scenes that took place at Scofield, Utah, May 1,
· Iron County, Utah Census, 1910
· Juab County, Utah Citizenship Certificate Stubs, 1908-1928
· Life history of Thomas Orr, Jr. : pioneer stories of California and Utah.
· Lumley family group sheets : Salt Lake City, Utah.
· Memories that live : Utah County centennial history
· Ogden Standard Examiner (Ogden, Utah)
· Our strip of land : a history of Daggett County, Utah
· Pioneer Immigrants to Utah Territory
· Remingtons of Utah : with their ancestors and descendants
· Salt Lake City, Utah Cemetery Records, 1848-1992
· Salt Lake County, Utah Civil and Criminal Case Files, 1852-1887
· Salt Lake County, Utah Coroners' Inquest Case Files, 1870-1871, 1886-1937
· Salt Lake Tribune, The (Salt Lake City, Utah)
· Sons of the Utah Pioneers: Biography Files (A-G)
· Sons of the Utah Pioneers: Biography Files (H-P)
· Sons of the Utah Pioneers: Biography Files (R-Z)
· Sons of the Utah Pioneers-A Genealogy of the Descendants of John May
· Sons of the Utah Pioneers-Ancestor Histories, presented by members of the East Mill Creek Chapter.
· Sons of the Utah Pioneers--Ancestor Histories, Salt Lake City Chapter
· Sons of the Utah Pioneers-Ancestor Histories, Sugarhouse Chapter
· Sons of the Utah Pioneers-Knight's History of England, Vol. 1-8
· Sons of the Utah Pioneers-Personal Histories, Beehive Chapter
· Sons of the Utah Pioneers-Utah, Pioneer Companies
· Sons of Utah Pioneers - Card Index, 1847-50
· Sons of Utah Pioneers Membership Applications
· Sons of Utah Pioneers Memorial Gallery Index Cards
· Tales of a triumphant people : a history of Salt Lake County, Utah, 1847-1900
· The History of the Utah volunteers in the Spanish-American War and in the Philippine Islands : a complete history of all the mi
· The Standard (Ogden, Utah)
· Tullidge's histories. : containing the history of all the northern, eastern and western counties of Utah, also the counties of
· Utah and Idaho cemetery records
· Utah Births, 1895-1905
· Utah Cemeteries
· Utah Cemetery Inventory
· Utah Census, 1850-90
· Utah City Directories
· Utah County, Utah Cemetery Index
· Utah Death Index, 1905-1951
· Utah Directory, 1890: Salt Lake City, Logan, and Provo
· Utah History
· Utah Index to Indian War Service Affidavits, 1909-19
· Utah Naturalization Declarations of Intention, 1878-1895
· Utah pioneer and apostle Marriner Wood Merrill and his family
· Utah Pioneers and Prominent Men
· Utah Pioneers, 1847-50
· Utah Since Statehood, Volumes 1-4
· Utah Third District Court, Territorial Criminal Case Files Index, 1882-96
· Utah, Our Pioneer Heritage
· Wasatch County, Utah Citizenship Certificate Stubs, 1907-1924
· Wasatch County, Utah Naturalization Record Books, 1896-1906
· Weber County, Utah Civil and Criminal Case Files, 1852-1887
· Weber County, Utah Probate Court Civil and Criminal Case Registers of Actions, 1868-1887
· Winterton pioneers of Utah

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Myrt :)
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