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-Effective family research requires an understanding of the historical events that may have affected your family and the records about them. Learning about wars, governments, laws, migrations, and religious trends may help you understand political boundaries, family movements, and settlement patterns.
+==Brief History==
 The following events affected [[Portal:Utah|Utah]]'s political boundaries, record-keeping practices, and settlement patterns.
-'''1776'''<nowiki>: &nbsp;Spanish explorers Dominquez and Escalante visited the Utah area.</nowiki>
+'''1776''': Spanish explorers Dominquez and Escalante visited the Utah area.
-'''1820–1840'''<nowiki>: &nbsp;Fur trappers, including Jedediah Smith and Jim Bridger, worked in the area and held rendezvous in Utah. They also built some forts.</nowiki>
+'''1820–1840''': Fur trappers, including Jedediah Smith and Jim Bridger, worked in the area and held rendezvous in Utah. They also built some forts.
-'''1822–1848'''<nowiki>: &nbsp;The area known as Utah was part of Mexico until the end of the Mexican War. At the end of the Mexican War, the region that included present-day Utah and parts of several surrounding states became part of the United States.</nowiki>
+'''1822–1848''': The area known as Utah was part of Mexico until the end of the Mexican War. At the end of the Mexican War, the region that included present-day Utah and parts of several surrounding states became part of the United States.
 '''1846'''<nowiki>: &nbsp;The Donner-Reed party blazed a trail through the Utah mountains into the Salt Lake Valley. This was the same trail later used by Brigham Young</nowiki>
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 ''Utah: A Centennial History''. Three Volumes. New York, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1949. (Family&nbsp;History Library&nbsp;[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=176699&disp=Utah%2C+a+centennial+history%20%20&columns=*,0,0 book 979.2 H2s]). This includes a brief history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Milton R. Hunter and a good section on Utah history. Volume three contains personal and family records.
 The records on compact disc mentioned in the "Church Records" section of this outline include several histories of Utah. Check these indexes for more information.
 === Local Histories  ===