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Websites of Interest to LDS Pioneer Research:

How-to Resources

Family Search Genealogical Wiki: Free family history research advice for the community, by the community.

Historical Resources

Pioneer Family Heritage Society: Descendants of pioneers residing in the original Winter Quarters / Kanesville area.

BYU Winter Quarters Project: Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Southwestern Iowa, 1846 - 1853

Harold B. Lee Library Collections Search: An  advanced search of all the collections held by the Harold B. Library at BYU.

World Vital Records: A subscription database records site.  Early LDS and RLDS church records, 1850 Annotated 1850 Census.

Crockett Mormon Pioneer Books Online: A day by day records of Winter Quarters and the Mormon Battalion march.

Family Search Records Search: Family tree and records search.

Iowa State Historical Society: Click Library & Special Collections under "Collections:.

Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel 1846 - 1868: A database of pioneer companies giving names and events.

The Travels of the Willie Handcart Company: Day by day journal entries of the travel from Liverpool to Salt Lake City.

Mormon Migration: Provides a place for historical and genealogical research into the world-wide migration records and history about the 19th and 20th century movement of thousands of immigrants from many nations who are part of the membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, more commonly known as the LDS Church or the Mormon Church.

Mormon Battalion WikiPedia: A organization dedicated to honoring the history of the Mormon Battalion

3Fold: (Formerly Footnote) Mormon Battalion pension records. Subscription site.

The Immigrant Ancestors Project: Sponsored by the Center for Family History and Genealogy at Brigham Young University, uses emigration registers to locate information about the birthplaces of immigrants in their native countries, which is not found in the port registers and naturalization documents in the destination countries. Volunteers working with scholars and researchers at Brigham Young University are creating a database of millions of immigrants based on these emigration registers.

Scandinavian Latter-say Saint Research: A page created documenting the first hand accounts of several LDS Scandinavian voyages and the subsequent overland journey.

Welsh Mormon History: The information contained herein has been compiled from a variety of sources, but mainly from the "Ancestral File" found on the Church's familysearch.org web site. Our database contains a separate record of information for each individual, in addition to numerous multimedia resources, such as journals, biographies and photos.

 

Genealogical Databases

Family Search: Free family history, family tree, and genealogy records and resources from around the world.

Ancestry Genealogical Databases: Subscription family history and genealogical records website.

Family History Archive: The Family History Archive is a collection of published genealogy and family history books. The archive includes histories of families, county and local histories, how-to books on genealogy, genealogy magazines and periodicals (including some international), medieval books (including histories and pedigrees), and gazetteers.

 

County Research  Links to counties from Nauvoo, Illinois along the Mormon Trail to Winter Quarters in Omaha, Nebraska.

Adair County, Iowa: USGenWeb county site. Pioneer trail.

Appanoose County, Iowa: USGenWeb county site. Pioneer trail.

Cass County, Iowa: USGenWeb county site. Pioneer trail and settlements. Winter Quarters area.

Cass County, Nebraska: USGenWeb county site. Pioneer trail.

Clark County, Iowa: USGenWeb county site. Pioneer trail.

Davis County, Iowa: USGenWeb county site. Pioneer trail.

Decatur County, Iowa: USGenWeb county site. Pioneer trail and Garden Grove way station.

Douglas County, Nebraska: USGenWeb county site. Pioneer trail and settlements. Winter Quarters area.

Fremont County, Iowa: USGenWeb county site. Pioneer settlements

Hancock County, Illinois: USGenWeb county site. Nauvoo area.

Harrison County, Iowa: USGenWeb county site. Pioneer settlements.

Lee County, Iowa: USGenWeb county site. Pioneer trail.

Mills County, Iowa: USGenWeb county site. Pioneer settlements.

Monona County, Iowa: USGenWeb county site. Pioneer settlements.

Montgomery County, Iowa: USGenWeb county site. Pioneer settlements.

Otoe County, Nebraska: USGenWeb county site. Pioneer trail.

Pottawattamie County, Iowa: USGenWeb county site. Pioneer trail and settlements. Kanesville area.

Sarpy County, Nebraska: USGenWeb county site. Pioneer trail.

Shelby County, Iowa: USGenWeb county site. Pioneer settlements.

Union County, Iowa: USGenWeb county site. Pioneer trail and Mt. Pisgah way station.

Van Buren, Iowa: USGenWeb county site. Pioneer trail.

Washington County, Nebraska: USGenWeb county site. Pioneer settlements. Summer Quarters area.

Wayne County, Iowa: USGenWeb county site. Pioneer trail.

Journals

Book of Abraham Project: Journals

Fremont and Mills County, Iowa Biographies: Free book online.

Harrison County, Iowa Biographical Index: Index to biographical holdings.

Monona County, Iowa History and Biographical Index: Free Google book online.

Montgomery County, Iowa Biographical Index: Biographies of early residents of the county.

Pottawattamie County, Iowa Biographical History: Book online.

Trails of Hope: Overland diaries and letters

 

Maps

A. T. Andreas Atlas Iowa 1875: Index of pages

Iowa Digital Map Collections: The University of Iowa Libraries Iowa Maps Digital Collection.

Name Index to the 1885 Illustrated Atlas of Pottawattamie County Iowa: From the Pottawattamie County Genealogical Society

Nebraska State Surveyor's Office: Click on Maps Surveys and Instructions

US Bureau of Land Management: Search maps and other documents.

USGS Place Finder: Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)

 

Cemeteries

Find a Grave: Cemetery and marker resource.

Iowa Graves Survey WPA: Work Projects Administration 1930s Graves Registration Survey

Iowa Gravestone Photo Project: The mission of this project is to capture digital images of the gravestones of our ancestors buried in Iowa

Pioneer Family Heritage Society Cemetery List: Maps of pioneer Iowa counties showing cemeteries.

Mormon Battalion - Virtual Cemetery:  A Find-a-Grave Listing

 

General Search Tools

Google Genealogical Research Helps: This free genealogy site will help you use Google™ for your research. It will create a series of different searches using tips or "tricks" that will likely improve your results.

Tracing LDS Ancestors: Category page on Family Search with helps on finding LDS ancestors.

Tracing Mormon Pioneers: The site provides tips for searching Mormon pioneer ancestors who came during the 1847 to 1868 time period and from "Europe, Scandinavia, Australia, and South Africa." The tips will take you through a step-by-step process for searching the available records.

General Google Search: When searching for full names place first and last name in quotation marks, i.e. “John Doe”.

Google Book Search: Digitized books online.

Scribd: Digitized books online.

    Census Records:

       Nebraska Territorial Census Nebraska 1854, 1855, 1856
       Lee County, Iowa 1840

       Annotated 1850 Iowa Census, Pottawattamie County
         Pottawattamie County, Iowa 1850 Census (District 21) On the Ancestry subscription website.

 

   Master Index of Books at the Mormon Trail Center at Historic Winter Quarters Pioneer Research Library:

   
     Alphabetical Listing: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | XYZ

 

The following books are found in the index:
  1. 111 Days to Zion by Hal Knight and Dr. Stanley B. Kimball, MT GEN 1
  2. A Mormon Chronicle Vol.1 The Diaries of  John D. Lee, 1848-1876 Edited by Robert Glass Cleland and Juanita Brooks, LDS PH 33
  3. A Mormon Chronicle Vol.II The Diaries of  John D. Lee, 1848-1876 Edited by Robert Glass Cleland and Juanita Brooks, LDS PH 33
  4. A Sculptor's Testimony in Bronze & Stone By Eugene F. Fairbanks, LDS PH 6 and 7
  5. A Womans View Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences Of Early Church History- Edited By Jenny Broberg Holzapphel&Richard Neitzel Holzaphel, PW 8
  6. An Intimate Chronicle Edited By George D. Smith, MT GEN 22
  7. Bishop Jonathan H. Hale of Nauvoo History Life & Ministry by Heber Q. Hale, LDS PH 14
  8. Brigham Young, His Wives and Family, LDS PH 35
  9. C.C.A. Christensen By Richard L. Jensen and Richard G. Oman, LDS PH 25
  10. Charlotte Elizabeth By JoAnn Mellor Felix, PW 6
  11. Chronicles of Faith by David T. Kenison, MT GEN 14
  12. Compilation of Pioneer Histories A.-G., LDS PH 26
  13. Compilation of Pioneer Histories H-Z, LDS PH 27
  14. Cultural Conflict: Mormons and Indians in Nebraska By Lawrence G. Coates, MT GEN 27
  15. Daniel Allen, Pioneer Tanner By Kenneth R. Allen, LDS PH 29
  16. Day By Day with the Utah Pioneers 1847 By Andrew Jenson, MT GEN 31
  17. Emigrating Journals of The Willie and Martin Handcart Companies and The Hunt and Hodgett Wagon Trains By Lynne Slater Turner, MT HCH 5
  18. Finalizing Plans for the Trek West: Deliberations at Winter Quarters, 1846-1847 By Richard E. Bennett, MT GEN 27
  19. Fort Bridger Island in the Wilderness by Gowans and Campbell, MT GEN 28
  20. From The Green Hills Of England To The Red Hills Of Dixie By Reid L. Neilson, MT GEN 45
  21. Great Basin Kingdom By Leonard J. Arrington, MT GEN 17
  22. Guide to Mormon Diaries & Autobiographies by Davis Bitton, LDS PH 36
  23. Handcarts To Zion--By LeRoy R. Hafen and Ann W.Hafen, MT HCH 6
  24. Heroines Of The Restoration-- By Barbara B. Smith And Blythe Darlyn Thatcher, PW 14
  25. Historic Sites and Markers Along The Mormon and Other Great Western Trails By Stanley B. Kimball, MT GEN 48
  26. History of the Church, Volumes 1 -7,  by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, GCH 47 - 54 Includes Index
  27. History of Utah Pioneers--By Daughters of Utah Pioneers, LDS PH 20
  28. Homeward To Zion By William Mulder, MT Gen 44
  29. How Large Was The Population of Nauvoo? By Susan Easton Black, MT Gen 21
  30. In Their Own Words-Women and The Story of Nauvoo By Carol Cornwall Madsen, PW 10
  31. John Spiers Life as a Mormon Pioneer By Duane E. Spiers, Ph. D., LDS PH 20
  32. John Vance Journal 1846-1850 Forward by LaDell W. Vance, LDS PH 12
  33. Joseph, Exploring the Life and Ministry of the Prophet edited by Susan Easton Black and Andrew Skinner, LDS REF 52
  34. Journal of Jacob Miller by Joseph Royal Miller & Elna Miller, LDS PH 11
  35. Journey to Zion By Carol Cornwall Madsen, PDS PH 9
  36. Latter Day Voyages on the S.S. Wyoming 1871-1890, LDS ESH 1
  37. Mary Fielding Smith by Don C. Corbett, PW 4
  38. Mormon Midwife the 1846-1888 Diaries of Patty Bartlett Sessions Edited by Donna Toland Smart, PW 12
  39. Mormon Redress Petitions By Clark V. Johnson, MT GEN 25
  40. Mormon Trail Network In Nebraska, 1846-1868: A New Look By Stanley Kimball, MT GEN 27
  41. Mormons at the Missouri, 1846-1852 By Richard E. Bennett, MT GEN 8
  42. My Best For The Kingdom--History and Autobiography of John Lowe Butler--By William G. Hartley, LDS PH 34
  43. Nauvoo the Beautiful By E. Cecil McGavin, Nauvoo HIST 3
  44. Nauvoo, the City Of Joseph by David E. Miller & Della S. Miller, Nauvoo HIST 4
  45. Officers and Arms: The 1843 General Return of the Nauvoo Legion’s Second Cohort By Richard L. Saunders, MT GEN 21
  46. Old Mormon Nauvoo & Southeastern Iowa By Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and T. Jeffery Cottle, Nauvoo HIST 2
  47. On This Day In The Church By Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Alexander L. Baugh, Robert C. Freeman, Andrew H. Hedges, MT GEN 35
  48. Orpha Florialla Knight 1844-1847, LDS PH 2
  49. Orson Hyde The Olive Branch Of Israel--By Myrtle Stevens Hyde, LDS PH 28
  50. Our Pioneer Heritage By Kate B. Carter, MT GEN 33
  51. Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881 Edited by Elayne Stoker, LDS PH 15
  52. Parley P. Pratt In Winter Quarters And The Trail West by Stephen F. Pratt,  MT GEN 27
  53. Patty Sessions Journal 1846-1866-1880 By Edyth J. Romney, PW 1
  54. Pioneer Legacies By Doyle R. Anderson, EdD., LDS PH 30
  55. Pioneer Pathways By the Utah Daughters of the Pioneers, Vols 1 -5, GCH 15 - 19
  56. Quilts & Women of Mormon Migrations By Mary Bywater Cross, PW 2
  57. Remembering Winter Quarters/Council Bluffs By Karen M & Paul D Larsen, LDS PH 31
  58. Rescue of the 1856 Handcart Companies--By Rebecca Bartholomew and Leonard J. Arrington, MT HCH 2
  59. Sacred Places-New York & Pennsylvania By LaMar C. Berrett, Gen. Editor, and Larry C. Porter, MT GEN 39
  60. Sacred Places-Ohio & Illinois By LaMar C. Berrett, Gen. Editor, and Keith W. Perkins, Donald Q. Cannon, MT GEN 40
  61. Sail and Rail Pioneers Before 1869 By Stanley B. Kimball, MT GEN 21
  62. Saints Find The Place by David R. Crockett, MT GEN 6
  63. Saints In Exile by David R. Crockett, MT 4
  64. Saints in the Wilderness by David R. Crockett, MT GEN 5
  65. Ships, Saints and Mariners--By Conway B. Sonne, LDS ESH 2
  66. Sun-Bonnet Sisters By Leonard J. Arrington and Susan Arrington Madsen, PW 3
  67. Taylor Family History By Donna H. & James C. Taylor, LDS PH 19
  68. Taylor Family History-Families & Posterity of Saints who attended the Nauvoo Temple 1845-1846 by Donna H.Taylor & J. C. Taylor, LDS PH 18
  69. Tell My Story, Too By Jolene S. Allphin - see Table of Contents, MT HCH 7
  70. The Cluff Family Journal (Rearranged) 1995 By Viva Cluff Whetten, LDS PH 5
  71. The Eastwood Family Record By Edith C. Smith, LDS PH 17
  72. The Faith of Phebe--By Beverly Thompson, PW 15
  73. The Gathering of Zion  The Story of the Morman Trail by Wallace Stegner, MT GEN 32
  74. The Great Florence Fitout of 1861 By William G. Hartley, MT GEN 27
  75. The Houtz Family Report and Eastwood Memories By Edna C. Smith, LDS PH 16
  76. The Iowa Journal of Lorenzo Snow Edited by Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, MT GEN 27
  77. The Legacy of David Bancroft and His Family by Lois Fackrell Worlton and William Jack Worlton, LDS PH 14
  78. The Iowa Mormon Trail by Susan Easton Black and William G. Hartley, MT GEN 16
  79. The Latter Day Saints by William E. Berrett, MT GEN 51
  80. The Latter-day Saints’ Emigrants’ Guide By W. Clayton, MT GEN 15
  81. The Legacy of William Warner Player  1793-1993 by Madelyn Player, LDS PH 4
  82. The Martyrdom Remembered by Davis Bitton, Nauvoo HIST 6
  83. The Master Builders By E. Orlean Miller Koehle, LDS PH24
  84. The Mormon Experience By Leonard J. Arrington and Davis Bitten, MT GEN 46
  85. The Mormon Pioneers From A to Z Along the Mormon Trail By Bill Alexander, MT GEN 36
  86. The Mormon Trail Yesterday and Today By William E. Hill, MT GEN 20
  87. The Myers Family, LDS PH 32
  88. The Pioneer Camp of the Saints Edited By Will Bagley, MT GEN 26
  89. The Return of Oliver Cowdery By Scott H. Faulring, LDS PH 22
  90. The Sonnarslov Family By Bengt Berglund & Sara Berglund, LDS PH 8
  91. The Story Of The Latter-day Saints  By James B. Allen And Glen M. Leonard, MT GEN 12
  92. The Year of Decision 1846 By Bernard DeVoto, MT GEN 10
  93. Their Faces Toward Zion by Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, MT GEN29
  94. Thomas Bullock and Orson Pratt, LDS PH 23
  95. Trail Of Hope by William Slaughter and Michael Landon, MT GEN 7
  96. Trailing the Pioneers By Peter H. DeLafosse, MT GEN 19
  97. Treasurers of Pioneer History by Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, Vols 1 -6 GHC 10 -14
  98. Two Mormon Pioneers History by Emma Nielsen Mortensen, LDS PH 10
  99. We'll Find The Place By Richard E. Bennett, MT GEN 53
  100. West From Fort Bridger Edited by Roderic Korns and Dale L. Morgan, MT GEN 49
  101. William Clayton’s Journal By The Clayton Family Association, MT GEN 9
  102. Winter Quarters The 1846-1848 Life Writings of Mary Haskins Parker Richards Edited by Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, PW 13
  103. Witness To The Martyrdom Edited By Mark H, Taylor, NAUVOO HIST 8
  104. Women Of Covenant--By Jill Mulvay Derr, John Russell Cannon , Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, PW 5
  105. Women Of Nauvoo--By Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Jeni Broberg Holzapfel, PW 9
  106. Women's Diaries Of The Westward Journey--By Lillian Schlissel, PW 11
  107. Women’s Voices An Untold History Of Latter Day Saints--By Kenneth W. Godfrey, Audrey M. Godfrey, Jill Mulvay Derr, PW 7

 

 

 

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