Related Links and Links of Interest
Last updated: February 16, 2026
LDS Converts from the Isle
of Man (England)
A list
of
links relating to LDS and Utah Records by Donald Snow.
An interesting set of articles on LDS
migration by Fred Woods. The links will not work,
however some of the articles may be online, but you will need to
track those down.
A new
web page has been created to help those in searching their LDS
ancestry who came to Utah after 1868.
Search
Death records in Salt Lake County, Utah 1849-1949 online.
Check out this online book on Mormon Pioneers put out by the
National Park Service.
http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/mopi/hrst.htm
A Searchable version of the Deseret News 1850-1898 is now online at the Utah Digital
Newspapers web page.
It also includes a search mechanism for births, marriages and deaths
mentioned in the paper.
Note: not all of these events were recorded in the newspaper.
I have come across a resource that reportedly has 48,000+ references
to early LDS members from 1830 to the early Utah period. The web
site is called Early Latter-day Saints and all you need to do is put
in a name to find someone. A great online resource for finding some
information on early LDS members. The web site can be found at http://earlylds.com
There are two pages related to Winter Quarters. These are ongoing
projects which are trying to document the areas and people who lived
in and around the Kanesville area prior to and during the migration
to Utah. These are works in progress and so check them now and again
to find new items that have been posted.
Winter Quarters Project
The Daughters of the Utah Pioneers are moving into the 21st century
by having their own web page and
my favorite part is the History Department
section wherein you can search on the web page and order a
pioneer's biography written by children, grandchildren and
great-grandchildren of Mormon pioneers.
Some nice articles on pioneers and their journey at the Mormon
Historic Sites Foundation web page.
Click on a past issue to see a table of contents. Archived articles
are in PDF format.
Mormons and their
Neighbors by Marvin E. Wiggins is a great resource. Search
over 90,000 biographical references to Mormon Pioneers and
leaders. Scroll to the bottom of the aforementioned link and
download a text or XLSX (Microsoft Excel) file with the contents and
search that. There used to be an online search tool, but
unfortunately that has gone away. Call numbers
mentioned are the ones to find the source of a biographical
reference at the BYU Library.
The Utah Digital
Newspapers project is hosted at the University of Utah. It
contains searchable text for over 9 million pages from newspapers
from 1850-2023 including the Deseret News, one of the first
papers for Utah.
Western
State
Historical Marriage Record Index
Marriage index to
over 700,000 marriage entries from county records in 12 western
states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana,
Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming
New link: LDS
Euro Project. The purpose of this web site is to
provide some historical information including maps and histories
of early branches and areas of LDS church activity in Europe in
the nineteenth century.
The Welsh
Saints Project A great web site with lots of
information on Welsh Mormon converts.
The
Nauvoo
Temple Index provides Name, Date of Birth and Endowment Date
of
members of the LDS faith who were endowed in the Nauvoo Temple in
the 1840s.
Finding
Passenger
Lists
1820-1940s (arrivals at US Ports)
Utah
Census
Search
1850-1880
The Mormon
History Association
US Mormon Battalion is
an organization dedicated to preserving the history of the
battalion.
An excellent bibiliography
about
the Mormon Battalion has been prepared by Glade Nelson.
Web page: Mormon
Handcart Site
Provides plans for making a handcart like the original ones or a
better modern version.
The
Ship Brooklyn Association, which is about the 1846 voyage
take by some to New York to California.
Passengers
of the the ship Brooklyn.
Mary Goble Pay's 1856 Journal Account of
Cold and Suffering
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