LDS
AND UTAH RECORDS
©2007
by Donald R. Snow
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INTRODUCTION
- Instructors
are Donald R. and Diane M. Snow, 801-225-7123 in Provo, Utah and 435-673-1932 in St. George, Utah (snowd@math.byu.edu,
dms34@juno.com)
- These notes with
active Internet links are posted on the
Utah Valley PAF Users Group
website - http://uvpafug.org
under Class Outlines, Don's Listings.
- Helpful
pamphlets on LDS and Utah records -- these are
online and
you can print any parts
you want or buy hard copies from LDS Distribution Centers
MAJOR
WEB SITES FOR LDS
AND UTAH RECORDS
- Examples of types of records available -- vital
records,
burial and cemetery records, newspapers, LDS Church records (temple
records, ward and branch records, compiled records, journals and
diaries, Church and Utah history books, biographies, court records
- Early LDS Members database from 1830 to early Utah
period: http://earlylds.com--
53,000 names - read the Introduction in the file itself -
click on
Search without any data and see Introduction near
top; still
have more data to add and
correct
- FamilySearch -- http://www.familysearch.org/
-- Family History Library Catalog is now listing entire volumes
scanned and posted online
- When
you click on the red "To view a digital version of this book click
here.", you are taken to the BYU Harold B. Lee Library web site
- Harold B. Lee Library Online Collections
- To find your ancestor in all digitized FH's at the BYU HBLL, go to
http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/search.php and
search for your words in all of the Family Histories
collections, each
of which contains 200-300 volumes, so there are
hundreds of digitized FH books here -- all
completely word-searchable
- To
see all digitized books there search each FH collection, e.g. Family
Histories 1, for "." (without the quotes) -- you get 319 items
- List and links to all
BYU Library Online Collections -- http://www.lib.byu.edu/online.html
- 19th Century Mormon Publications Online -- http://relarchive.byu.edu/19th/description.html
- Search
engine for entries in Church Chronology,
Encyclopedic History of the Church, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, and
Progressive Men of Eastern Idaho -- http://www.lib.byu.edu/dlib/misc/
- Studies in Mormon History and Culture -- http://mormonhistory.byu.edu/screens/infoabout.html
- Utah
Statewide Indexes and Collections -- list of searchable
indexes and
collections on Utah and LDS in Family History Library Catalog
- Marie Taylor's web site -- http://www.warnes.net/Teslacorp/GenealogyLinks
or try http://genealogy-links.org
- Many LDS/Utah references including information on
history, genealogy, immigration, and much more
- "The
Cyndi's List of LDS records"
- Mormon
Pioneer Overland Travels (1847-1868) on LDS Church web site http://www.lds.org/
-- click on Church History/Church History Library/Mormon Pioneer
Overland Travel -- is being added to regularly and has many journals,
documents, etc.
-- try searching for an ancestor's surname (numbers in parentheses are
the ages at that time) -- parts of the Nauvoo databank
(see below) are being added
- BYU
Harold B. Lee Library: Trails of Hope:
Overland Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869
web
site: http://overlandtrails.lib.byu.edu/search.html
; FH Archive: http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/
; and 19th Century Mormon items: http://relarchive.byu.edu/19th/description.html
- Utah History Research Center, Rio Grande Building, SLC --
Utah State Archives and Utah State Historical Society -- http://historyresearch.utah.gov
- Linkpendium for Utah (2,935 links) -- http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/UT/
- Cyndi's List of FH for Utah (1,313 links) -- http://www.cyndislist.com/ut.htm
and Cyndi's List for LDS (300 links) -- http://www.cyndislist.com/lds.htm
- USGenWeb project - Utah -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~utgenweb/
- Genealogylinks.net -- http://www.kindredtrails.com/utah.html
- Utah State Archives -- http://www.archives.state.ut.us/main/
- BYU Idaho Family History Center -- http://abish.byui.edu/specialCollections/fhc/FamilyHistory.htm
- FamilyHistory.com (Ancestry.com) -- http://www.familyhistory.com/state.asp?state=UT
- World Vital Records (lots of LDS data) -- http://worldvitalrecords.com/ -- includes the Susan Easton-Black Membership of the Early LDS Church
- All
genealogy -- http://www.all-genealogy.com/united-states/utah.htm
- Ancestry.com -- http://www.ancestry.com/search/locality/dbpage.aspx?i=d&tp=2&p=47
- Allvitalrecords.com -- http://www.allvitalrecords.com/index.asp?state=UT
- Awesomegenealogy.com -- http://www.awesomegenealogy.com/state_utah.shtml
- Utah's Online Library -- http://pioneer-library.org/
- Genealogy Today Utah links --
http://www.genealogytoday.com/genealogy/states/utah.html
- About Genealogy -- http://genealogy.about.com/cs/utah/
- Utah Collections Media Encyclopedia -- http://www.uen.org/ucme
- Utah History Encyclopedia -- http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/UHEindex.html
- Utah Digital Newspaper collection 1879-1956 -- http://digitalnewspapers.org
- LDS InfoBase collection -- early Church publications and
periodicals --
http://ldsinfobase.net/index.html
- Genealogy Links for Utah -- http://www.genealogylinks.net/usa/utah
- Trails
to Utah and the Pacific (American Memory, Library of
Congress) --
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/upbhtml/overhome.html
- LDS-Hist: Historical Resources on the Internet -- http://lds-hist.hplx.net/lds-hist/Links.html
- NUCMC -- National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
--
http://lcweb.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/nucmc.html
- Utah
Censuses indexed --
http://www.xmission.com/~nelsonb/census_search.htm
- Arizona Birth and Death Records, index plus images of
certificates -- http://genealogy.az.gov
UTAH
VITAL RECORDS
- Utah Vital Records information, application
forms, costs,
addresses,
etc. -- https://health.utah.gov/vitalrecords/silver/index.htm
- Many older vital records at Utah History
Research Center,
Rio
Grande Building, SLC -- Utah State Archives and Utah State Historical
Society -- http://historyresearch.utah.gov
- County clerks and record offices for Utah counties --
http://www.vitalrec.com/utcounties.html
- Births
-- birth records are available in counties
and in the State Bureau of Vital Records
- Marriages
-- most marriage records are by counties
-- check
counties, also in the State Bureau of Vital Records and in the Utah
State Archives
- Deaths and burials
LDS
CHURCH RECORDS
- Many LDS Church records are listed in Utah
Statewide Indexes and Collections in Family History
Library Catalog
- Membership of the Church
of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints
1830-1848 by Susan Easton-Black (FHL #6031596, 95 fiche --
many
FHC's have this set)
- Compilation includes information much latter than
1848,
since many of those people and their children lived until later
- File
is now online at http://www.worldvitalrecords.com
, an
inexpensive commercial site
- Early
Church Information File
- Descriptive
brochure online at Early
Church Information
File (#34544, Free)
- Card file
of 1.5
million
references to early Church members from histories, journals,
etc.; filmed on 75 rolls of microfilm in 1991 --
additions
since then are only available in the FHL -- these are the references
only, not the articles themselves
- To find the
index film you need see list in Early
Church Information File in FH
Library
Catalog ; or go to the FHLC and enter Early Church
Information File in the Keyword Search -- be sure to click on View Film
Notes
- Deceased
Membership Records since 1941 -- can
sometimes get information by phone from Deceased
Membership
Office (
1-801-240-3500
) - Some records
have been filmed
and are available in the FHL, but not in FHC's -- you can
transcribe anything, but no photocopies allowed
- All
deceased membership records and temple data are being
entered into the IIGI, so it will contain all proxy and
deceased member data
- Early
Ward and Branch Records -- old "Form E's"
from each unit, listed members; have been filmed and are being
extracted
into
IIGI
- Church
Census Records -- on 651 FHL films starting with #25708
- 1914, then every 5 years from 1920 to 1960, except for
1945
- Arranged alphabetically by head
of household
- Member
Autobiographies
- 4-page form that all
Church members were asked to
complete in
1924-1929
- In hard copy in FHL and on 10
microfilms (FHL
#1059454-1059463)
- Patriarchal
Blessing Index (1830's-1993)
- Two
indices: 1833-1993, fiche (FHL #6334933,
68 fiche) and 1833-1963, film (on 66 films starting with
FHL #392631)
- Can obtain copies of patriarchal
blessings of all your
LDS ancestors
for $3 each -- info on http://lds.org/churchhistory/archives/pbinfo
- Be sure to check index with various spellings of names
and under maiden and married names -- many members received 2 or
3 blessings
- Church Historian's office
has a computerized index that
is
easier to search, but you have to go there to use it
- Missionary Index,
1830-1979 -- fiche (FHL #6334932,
8
fiche)
- Missionary records in Church Historian's
Office
- Temple Records
- IGI and IIGI -- details are discussed in
other
classes
- Archive
Section of Family Group Sheets (1942-1969, used
to be
available on 4th
Floor
of JSMB, but now only available on film)
- Family
group sheets submitted for temple work --
is a primary
source
for temple work done (with date stamped at
temple, not typed nor
hand written)
- Endowment
Index (1846-1969) -- sometimes called the Temple
Index Bureau Card File or TIB -- card file with 30 million cards with
endowment data
primarily; filmed on 3081 films; temple data in it has already
been extracted from original temple
records and put
into IIGI, but there may be more genealogical data on the cards, so
it's
worthwhile to check
- Nauvoo
Temple Endowment Register -- fiche (FHL #6051326, 3 fiche)
and
typescript index in hard copy at FHL
- Patron
Section Family Group Sheets (1962-1979, used to be
available on 4th Floor of JSMB, but now is only available on 4,018 FHL
films starting with #540714)
- Family group sheets
submitted to share information --
take
with
a grain of salt
- Filed alphabetically by
husband's surname
- Histories
of the Church, the Seventies, and Local Church
Units
- Mormon Battalion records -- records available in
book, on
film, and on CD of daily
happenings
taken from journals -- do a Google search for "Mormon Battalion"
- Selected
Collections from the Church
Historians Office --
graphics images on 74 DVD's
- LDS
Church Almanac -- published by
Deseret News every two
years
in December
- Latest one is 2007 Almanac, printed
in Dec 2006
- The 1997 Church Almanac for the
LDS Sesquicentennial
has
list of companies
crossing the plains and
their leaders
- Annotated
Record of Baptisms for the Dead
1840-1845, Nauvoo,
Hancock County, Illinois -- by Susan Easton-Black and Harvey
Bischoff Black,
2002
- 7 volumes, including index volume
- Includes information on proxies and work done in
baptisms for dead in Mississippi River
- Nauvoo Databank -- see Class Notes on Nauvoo Databank at http://uvpafug.org,
Class Outlines, Don's Listings
- Electronic collection of hundreds of journals,
biographies, documents, records, and Church information
- Available in Nauvoo, Illinois; Kirtland, Ohio; and at a few
FHC's in Utah
- Parts are also posted on the Internet now -- see links in Class
Notes on Nauvoo Databank
- LDS immigration records
- Mormon
Immigration Index -- on CD (#50174, $6),1841-1890 -- includes
date of immigration, ship, plus journals of fellow passengers -- is
being updated from 1890 to 1924 and will be posted online at http://www.lds.org
- LDS
to Zion -- http://www.warnes.net/Teslacorp/GenealogyLinks/index_html?Tab=8-LDS%20to%20Zion
- LDS Danish and Scandinavian immigration -- see http://www.ida.net/users/really/
- Tracing Mormon Pioneers web page -- http://www.xmission.com/~nelsonb/pioneer.htm
- Names
of Persons and Sureties Indebted to the Perpetual
Emigrating Fund Company from 1850 to 1877 Inclusive -- film
(FHL
#25686) -- a
printed and online pdf copy is in Mormon
Historical Studies, Vol.1,
No. 2, Fall 2000, 141-242
- Crossing
the Plains Index Database,
Melvin L. Bashore,
Church Historian's Office -- see Mormon
Pioneer Overland Travels (1847-1868) on LDS Church web site
and http://www.xmission.com/~nelsonb/resources.htm
- Mormon immigration info, passenger lists, ships,
etc.
--
http://www.xmission.com/~nelsonb/pioneer_search3.htm
LDS FAMILY HISTORY SUITE CD
- Commercial CD's by Ancestry.com -- LDS FH Suite and LDS
FH Suite 2 -- many FHC's have copies
- Marie
Taylor's web site shows links to the parts of these
CD's
that are online (see her web site under 7-LDS Ancestors/LDS Family
History Suite)
- The CD's contain many records,
volumes, histories, and
much
family history
- Susan
Easton-Black: Membership
of
the Early LDS
Church, 1830-1858 -- also on some of the older LDS
Infobase CD's and is now (Jan 2007) online at http://www.worldvitalrecords.com,
an inexpensive commercial site
- Andrew
Jenson: Church
Chronology, Biographical
Encyclopedia, Encyclopedic
History of the Church
- Davis
Bitton: Guide
to Mormon Diaries and Autobiographies
- Frank Esshom: Pioneers and
Prominent Men of Utah
-- includes text and pictures
- Marvin
Wiggins: Mormons and
Their
Neighbors
- Pioneer Heritage
Library --
includes
many LDS history
books
and databases such as the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers book series
- These are Folio 3 databases and
standard setup doesn't
work
on a
Windows XP machine, but they can be installed in Windows XP by using
the setup program in
one of the subfolders on the CD
- Web site for
Infobase information about LDS FH Suite -- http://paul.8m.com/tech/fhssol.htm
MISCELLANEOUS
--
BOOKS, HISTORIC WEBSITES, PHOTOGRAPHS,
COURT RECORDS, MAPS
- Other online LDS/Utah publications
- Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude,
International
Society Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, 4 volumes, 1998 -- biographies
and photos
of many pioneer women -- http://www.dupinternational.org/
- Conquerors of the
West: Stalwart
Mormon
Pioneers,
compiled
by Florence C. Youngberg, Sons of the Utah Pioneers, 4 volumes, 1999 --
biographies and photos -- http://historypreserved.com/Sons_of_Utah_Pioneers.htm
- Both the above plus many more biographies of LDS
pioneers
are
indexed in Godfrey Memorial Library Catalog -- http://godfrey.org ,
then click on
Library Online Catalog, and then the Search tab
- Sons
and Daughters of the Utah Pioneers -- http://www.onlineutah.com/pioneerssons&daughters.shtml
- DUP book series -- Our Pioneer Heritage, Heart
Throbs
of
the West, etc. -- in printed form, on LDS FH Suite
CD's, on Ancestry.com, and on Nauvoo Databank (see
above)
- County histories of all Utah counties
were printed
several
years
ago -- are now available on CD also
- FH CD's
with information on
LDS and Utah -- do keyword search on the Family
History Library Catalog for CD Utah, etc.
- Mormon Historic Sites
Foundation -- http://www.mormonhistoricsitesfoundation.org
- Far West, Missouri -- Far West Cultural Center web site
-- http://www.farwesthistory.com/
- Nauvoo, Illinois -- Historic Nauvoo web site -- http://nauvoopc.com/hnauvoo/
and http://historicnauvoo.net
- Winter Quarters, Nebraska -- Winter Quarters web
site
-- http://www.pioneerresearchgroup.org
- Iowa and Nebraska Mormon Communities -- http://winterquarters.byu.edu
- Washington County Utah information -- http://www.lofthouse.com/USA/Utah/washington/
- Washington County cemeteries --
http://www.utahcemeteries.org
- Daughters
of the Utah Pioneers -- http://www.dupinternational.org/
(search their History Card Index under History Department)
- Ancestral
File Submission Sheets -- 606
microfilms
of the hard copy submissions of notes and sources to the Ancestral File
-- see the submission to get the film number, if it
was microfilmed -- lots of LDS family history data here
- LDS Member Name Index 1830-1845 on Ancestry.com -- http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=4165
- Pictures
- Court records -- civil,
naturalization, land, tax
-- many
records at the Utah State Archives -- see http://www.archives.state.ut.us/
- Utah Digital Maps -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/maps/utah/
ASSIGNMENT
- Find the information on someone in the
online Utah US GenWeb website (e.g. the Utah Burials Index or Obituary
Index).
- Find the information on someone
in the Early LDS database.
- Find an
online photograph of the St.
George Temple by doing a Google Images search for St. George LDS
Temple. How many hits do you get?
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