Latter-day Saint Emigration and Immigration: Difference between revisions

*{{FSC|786419|title-id|disp=Nauvoo Social History Index}}. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University, 1983. (Family History Library fiche 6334931 [set of 6]). This is a personal name index to over 71,000 records including Nauvoo property records, tax lists, ship lists, censuses, family group records, and research notes. Shows the name, sex, and source information for each entry. This indexes passengers on many Church sponsored ships arriving in the United States from 1840 to 1849.

*{{FSC|331055|title-id|disp=European Emigration Card Index, 1849–1925}}. Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1951. (Family History Library films 298431–39). This index is also known as the Crossing the Ocean Index. It is an alphabetical card index to the Saints who crossed the ocean on their way to Zion. This index is incomplete because it focuses only on ships chartered by Church agents. The cards are filed by the head of the family or the leader of each group. The name of the ship and the date of departure from Liverpool is included.

*Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Family History Dept. Reference Unit. {{FSC|518588|title-id|disp=Scandinavian LDS Mission Index}}. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1992. (Family History Library fiche 6060482 [set of 344]). This indexes.

*Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Scandinavian Mission. {{FSC|614426|title-id|disp=Emigration Records, Scandinavian Mission (Denmark, Norway, Sweden) 1852–1920}}. Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1951–1953. (Family History Library films 025696–97). It may list in a year-by-year arrangement each emigrant’s name, age, residence, and occupation.

*{{FSC|522341|title-id|disp=Passenter-liste for Undvandrerskinbene fra Kobenhaven til Hull, 1872–1894 [Passenger Lists of Emigrants from Copenhagen to Hull, 1872–1894}}. Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1948. (Family History Library film 040994). Text in Danish. This record was created by the Copenhagen police of Latter-day Saint emigrants. It may show name, age, occupation, residence, and marital status.

Bashore, Melvin L., and Linda L. Haslam. {{FSC|594310|title-id|disp=Mormons on the High Seas: Ocean Voyage Narratives to America (1840–1890)}}.''[Salt Lake City, Utah]: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Historical Dept., 1990. (Family History Library book 289.3016 B291mh; film 1592752 item 5). This is a bibliography of accounts of the voyages made by members of the Church. This is arranged alphabetically by the ship name, and then by the date of the voyage. The latest edition is available in the [http://www.lds.org/churchhistory/library Historical Department—Church Library]. ''  

Jenson, Andrew. {{FSC|628379|title-id|disp=History of the Scandinavian Mission}}}. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret News Press, 1927. (Family History Library book 948 K2j; film 896938 item 2; fiche 6030136). This history gives accounts of voyages and the adventures while crossing the ocean. It includes detailed descriptions of many Church-chartered ships embarking from England between 1852 to 1890. Check the index to see if your ancestor’s ship is listed. The accounts include the Saints’ journeys across the plains to Utah.

Bashore, Melvin L., and Linda L. Haslam. [Database of] ''Mormon Pioneer Companies Crossing the Plains'' ''[1847–1868] Narratives: Guide to Sources in Utah Libraries and Archives''. Salt Lake City, Utah: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Historical Dept., 1998-. It is arranged by year and lists each company by date of departure. For each company, it lists sources of accounts alphabetically by author. For each source cited, it gives a summary of the account and list of every name and place mentioned in the original. It includes the repository and call number for each narrative. The staff at the [http://www.lds.org/churchhistory/library Historical Department—Church Library] will search the current database for you. The Family History Library only has the predecessor listed below:  

Bashore, Melvin L., and Linda L. Haslam. {{FSC|594278|title-id|disp=Mormon Pioneer Companies Crossing the Plains (1847–1868.)'' Narratives. Third Revised Edition}}. Salt Lake City, Utah: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Historical Dept., 1990. (Family History Library  book 289.3016 B291m; film 1592752 item 6). Since then, many more sources have been added. Pioneer companies are listed chronologically by year and then by company leader. This is indexed in the [[Early Church Information File (ECIF)|Early Church Information File]].  

Bashore, Melvin L. ''"New Mormon Emigration Finding Aids: The Compiler’s Personal Experiences." {{FSC|529374|title-id|disp= Nauvoo Journal}} 10'' (Spring 1998): 97–108. (Family History Library book 977.343/N1 H25n). This article explains the sources he used to compile his emigration indexes and reference works which are cited in this article.  

Hafen, LeRoy R. {{FSC|258003|title-id|disp=Handcarts to Zion: The Story of a Unique Western Migration, 1856–1860, With Contemporary Journals, Accounts, Reports, and Rosters of Members of the Ten Handcart Companies}}. Glendale, Calif.: Arthur H. Clark, 1960. (Family History Library book 289.309 H119h; film 1059487 item 7; fiche 6031590 [set of 4]). This is a good resource for accounts of the handcart companies. However, the rosters are incomplete. This is indexed in the [[Early Church Information File (ECIF)|''Early Church Information File'']].  

Black, Susan Easton, et. al. [http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=aa9f605ff590c010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&hideNav=1 ''Do We Know How Many Latter-day Saints Died Between 1846–1869 in the Migration to the Salt Lake Valley?''] ''The Ensign of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 28, no. 7 (July 1998):'' 41–44. (Family History Library book 289.305 C473e). This article includes background information about the types of illness that saints died of, their symptoms, and possible causes. It also explains the types of fatal accidents that occur with a wagon.  

Black, Susan Easton. {{FSC|24305|title-id|disp=Inscriptions Found on Tombstones and Monuments in Early Latter-day Saints Burial Grounds: Nauvoo, Illinois (Joseph Smith Homestead, and Pioneer Saints Cemetery on Parley Street), Mt. Pisgah, Iowa, West Bank of the Niobrara River, Nebraska, Winter Quarters, Nebraska}}. N.p.,''[198-?] (Family History Library book 973 V3es; fiche 6019028). Entries may include name, birth date, birthplace, death date, headstone markings, location of the grave, nickname, age, or source. This is included in the LDS Family History Suite 2. ''

{{FSC|112834|title-id|disp=Record of Early Members of the Church Who Died in Missouri, Kirtland, Nauvoo and on the Plains: Taken from the Evening  Morning Star, the Messenger and Advocate, the Elders’ Journal, the Times and Seasons, the Wasp, the Nauvoo Neighbor, the Prophet, the St. Louis Luminary, the Frontier Guardian, the Mormon, the Western Standard, and the Deseret News: Down to 1868}}. Holograph, 1965. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1965. (Family History Library book Q973 V2rc; film 413034 item 2). This is an alphabetical list of people who died along the trail. It gives the person’s name, birth date and place, and death date. It includes only the pioneers who died crossing the plains whose temple work was not completed as of 1918.