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From FamilySearch Research Wiki, July 11,2016
Tracing LDS Ancestors
This information is from the FamilySearch Research Wiki. All links are live.
Tracing LDS Ancestors
This information is from the FamilySearch Research Wiki. All links are live.
Key LDS Ancestor Research Links
- Mormon Places: an interactive gazetteer of thousands of places of interest to Latter-day Saint history
- Mormon Migration new!
- Early Church Information File (ECIF) free index.
- Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel 1846-1868 free index
- Early Latter-day Saints a Mormon Trail Pioneer Databa
- WorldVitalRecord LDS databases genealogy, marriages, cemeteries, military, land, and priesthood records
- Fold3.com Utah Territorial Case Files criminal and civil
- Fold3.com Mormon Battalion Pension Files affidavits, letters (Free at FamilySearch Library)
- Ancestry.com ($) LDS databases biographies, (Free at FamilySeach Library) petitions, military
Featured Content
The Perpetual Emigration Fund - With the creation of the new Perpetual Education Fund, some members have expressed interest in finding out about their ancestor's participation in the historical Perpetual Emigration Fund. This article will help you discover if your ancestors were assisted by the fund during their immigration to Utah.
New articles that might be of interest in your LDS research: each is a live link!.
All of this information can also be accessed at
- https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Tracing_LDS_Ancestors
Did you know?
The Perpetual Emigration Fund - With the creation of the new Perpetual Education Fund, some members have expressed interest in finding out about their ancestor's participation in the historical Perpetual Emigration Fund. This article will help you discover if your ancestors were assisted by the fund during their immigration to Utah.
New articles that might be of interest in your LDS research: each is a live link!.
- Members of the United Brethren Baptized by Wilford Woodruff
- Finding the Source of IGI Batch Numbers
- LDS Family History Suite 2
All of this information can also be accessed at
- https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Tracing_LDS_Ancestors
Did you know?
- The Center for Family History and Genealogy at Brigham Young University has a project devoted to members of the Church who were originally from Wales.
- http://welshmormon.byu.edu/ seeks to preserve and share information about the early converts to Mormonism in Wales. Its main focus is on those individuals who were involved in the Mormon movement in 19th-century Wales."
- The Tracing Mormon Pioneers website has indexed several sources related to searching for your LDS ancestors. Included on the site is a tutorial that will help walk you through the steps to locating records about your pioneer families. Read the Tracing Mormon Pioneers article for more information.
- Handcart Pioneers
- Kirtland Pioneers
- LDS Record Selection Table
- LDS Research Sources at Ancestry.com
- LDS Research Sources at WorldVitalRecords.com
- Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868
- Nauvoo Pioneers
- Sources related to British converts
- Sources related to Scandinavian converts
- Sources related to Welch converts
- Timeline
- Utah
- Websites for LDS Research
- Winter Quarters Pioneers