Latter-day Saint Emigration and Immigration: Difference between revisions

= '''Crossing the Ocean''' =

If your ancestor traveled across the ocean to the United States with a Church company, follow these steps:  

1. Use the indexes listed in "Indexes to Passenger Lists," below, to find out the voyage on which an ancestor came.  

2. Find the voyage in the [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=474641&disp=Worldwide+LDS+ship+register%20%20&columns=*,0,0 Worldwide LDS Ship Register], which is described later in this section, and record the following information:  

*Name of Ship  

*Date of departure and the microfilm number of the Church emigration register.  

*Date of arrival and the microfilm number of the United States passenger list.

3. Obtain the microfilms of the Church emigration register and the United States passenger list.  

4. On the film of the Church emigration register, look chronologically for the date of departure. Then look on the United States passenger list for the date of arrival.  

5. Find the ship. (Ship’s names are recorded at the top of each page of a passenger list.)  

6. Read the names of the passengers to find your ancestor.  

If your ancestor did not emigrate to the United States with a Church company, you can check the following sources for records and strategies:  

*The "Emigration and Immigration" section of the research outline of the nation from which he or she came.  

*The "[[United States Emigration and Immigration|Emigration and Immigration]]" section of the United States Research Outline (30972).  

*The [[Portal:Tracing Immigrant Origins|Tracing Immigrant Origins]] FamilySearchWiki article.

== Indexes to Passenger Lists ==

To find the voyage of Church members who emigrated to the United States, try the following sources:  

*[http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=786419&disp=%5BNauvoo+social+history+index%5D%20%20&columns=*,0,0 [''Nauvoo Social History Index'']]. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University, 1983. (FHL 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.

Davis, Grant. [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=665620&disp=LDS+emigrant+roster+and+voyage+history%2%20%20&columns=*,0,0 ''LDS Emigrant Roster and Voyage History, Crossing the Ocean, 1840–1869'']. Salt Lake City, Utah: Your Ship, 1997. (FHL compact disc no. 60). It focuses mostly on the Saints who crossed the ocean between 1849 and 1869. This indexes Church emigration register (passenger lists), books about Church member emigrants, Perpetual Emigration Fund lists, handcart pioneers, and Sons of Utah Pioneer records. The index is not complete. This disc also includes Conway B. Sonne’s book [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=510638&disp=Ships%2C+saints+and+mariners%20%20&columns=*,0,0 ''Ships, Saints, and Mariners''] with pictures and descriptions of many ships chartered by the Church. This is included in ''LDS Family History Suite 2''.  

[http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=331055&disp=European+emigration+card+index%2C+1849%2%20%20&columns=*,0,0 ''European Emigration Card Index, 1849–1925'']. Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1951. (FHL 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.  

[[Early Church Information File (ECIF)|''Early Church Information File'']]. This index is cited fully in the "[[LDS Biographies|Biography]]" section of this outline. It indexes Church emigration registers that were not included in the ''European Emigration Card Index'' cited previously.  

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Family History Dept. LDS Reference Unit. [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=518588&disp=Scandinavian+LDS+Mission+Index%20%20&columns=*,0,0 ''Scandinavian LDS Mission Index'']. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1992. (FHL fiche 6060482 [set of 344]). This indexes.  

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Scandinavian Mission. [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=614426&disp=Emigration+records%2C+Scandinavian+Missi%20%20&columns=*,0,0 ''Emigration Records, Scandinavian Mission (Denmark, Norway, Sweden) 1852–1920'']. Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1951–1953. (FHL films 025696–97). It may list in a year-by-year arrangement each emigrant’s name, age, residence, and occupation.  

[http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=522341&disp=Passageer%2Dliste+for+udvandrerskibene+f%20%20&columns=*,0,0 ''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. (FHL 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.  

== '''Worldwide LDS Ship Register (1840–1913).'''<br> ==

To find microfilm numbers of passenger lists of emigrating Saints, search the following source:  

Taylor, Margery. [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=474641&disp=Worldwide+LDS+ship+register%20%20&columns=*,0,0 ''Worldwide LDS Ship Register, 1840–1913'']. [Salt Lake City, Utah]: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Family History Department, 1991. (FHL book 289.309 T216w; film 1592753). This is a comprehensive list of ships used by Church emigrants. It is arranged chronologically by the departure date. It includes ships that came from Liverpool, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Capetown, Glasgow, and other foreign ports. It lists departure date, ship name, departure port, "LDS roster" (microfilm number for the Church’s emigration register), company leader, arrival date, arrival port, "US roster" (film number for the United States passenger arrival list), references to written accounts of the voyage, and references to a picture or description of the ship.  

You can also find film numbers to the Church emigration registers in the Subject Search of the Family History Library Catalog under:  

[http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=subjecthitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&subject=Mormons+-+Emigration+and+Immigration&presubject=Mormons+-+Emigration+and+Immigration MORMONS— EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION] <!--{12036926085310} -->  

== '''Written Accounts of Voyages'''.<br> ==

To find written accounts of voyages, check the following sources:  

Bashore, Melvin L., and Linda L. Haslam. ''[http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=594310&disp=Mormons+on+the+high+seas%3B+ocean+voyage%20%20&columns=*,0,0 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. (FHL 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].  

The following important source is not limited to Scandinavians: