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.
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