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 ==== Mormon Migration (website)<br>  ====
-[http://lib.byu.edu/mormonmigration/index.php Mormon Migration], a website hosted by the Harold B. Lee Library of BYU, is perhaps the most comprehensive sourse for finding information about Mormon companies and individuals crossing the ocean. It 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. It brings together passenger lists, journals and other historical sources relating to the journey, as well as an extensive bibliograhy. Many of the sources cited below are contained on this website.<br>
+[http://mormonmigration.lib.byu.edu/ Mormon Migration], a website hosted by the Harold B. Lee Library of BYU, is perhaps the most comprehensive sourse for finding information about Mormon companies and individuals crossing the ocean. It 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. It brings together passenger lists, journals and other historical sources relating to the journey, as well as an extensive bibliograhy. Many of the sources cited below are contained on this website.<br>
 ==== Microfilm search strategy  ====
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 The following important source is not limited to Scandinavians:
 Jenson, Andrew. {{FHL|628379|title-id|disp=History of the Scandinavian Mission}}}. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret News Press, 1927. (Family History Library&nbsp;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.
 === '''Crossing the Plains'''  ===
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 ==== '''Indexes to Pioneer Companies (1847–1869)'''<br>  ====
-[[Image:Sites Along the Mormon Trail.png|thumb]]The [http://www.lds.org/churchhistory/library/pioneercompanysearch/1,15773,3966-1,00.html Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847-1868] is the Internet version of Melvin L. Bashore's ''Crossing the Plains Index Database''. Salt Lake City, Utah: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Historical Dept., 1998-. The Historical Department—Church Library is adding information from many recently discovered rosters and other sources to this database. Each entry gives the pioneer’s name, age, sex, and the year he or she came and the name of the pioneer company. It sometimes includes birth, death, or other identifying information. This is an attempt to correct and expand previous indexes. This database has the following searches:
+[[Image:Sites Along the Mormon Trail.png|thumb|Sites Along the Mormon Trail.png]]The [http://www.lds.org/churchhistory/library/pioneercompanysearch/1,15773,3966-1,00.html Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847-1868] is the Internet version of Melvin L. Bashore's ''Crossing the Plains Index Database''. Salt Lake City, Utah: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Historical Dept., 1998-. The Historical Department—Church Library is adding information from many recently discovered rosters and other sources to this database. Each entry gives the pioneer’s name, age, sex, and the year he or she came and the name of the pioneer company. It sometimes includes birth, death, or other identifying information. This is an attempt to correct and expand previous indexes. This database has the following searches:
 *''Surname''. This search provides all entries for one surname, by exact spelling.
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 [http://mormontrails.org/Trails/MormonTrails.htm Mormon Trails Association]. [Internet site]. N.p.: MTA, 1999-2005 [cited 21 February 2008]. Available at [http://mormontrails.org/Trails/Summary/trailful.htm Mormon Trails] Includes detailed descriptions of variations in the trail route from year to year.
-[http://www.prs.tcu.edu/lit_west_full.pdf  The Mormon Pioneer Trail]. In the American West Home Page [Internet site]..  More emphasis on the history than on the route.<br>
+[http://www.prs.tcu.edu/lit_west_full.pdf The Mormon Pioneer Trail]. In the American West Home Page [Internet site].. More emphasis on the history than on the route.<br>
 "[http://www.nps.gov/mopi/index.htm Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail]" National Park Service Internet site [cited 21 February 2008] Available at http://www.nps.gov/mopi/index.htm. Discusses the culture and history of the trail, and has a great map showing the trail and modern roads nearby.<br>
 "[http://www.octa-trails.org/ Oregon - California Trails Association]." In Calcite Rocky Mountain College [Internet site]. Independence, Missouri: OCTA, 28 June 1999 [cited 21 February 2008]. Available at http://www.octa-trails.org/. Includes Mormon trail maps, photos, site descriptions, and diary quotations. For an index of overland trail documents try <u>http://</u>[http://www.paper-trail.org/search.asp <u>www.paper-trail.org/search.asp</u>].<br><!--{12082106933120} --><!--{12082106933121} --><!--{12082106933122} --><!--{12082106933123} --><!--{12082106933124} -->
 ==== '''Deaths Along the Trail'''  ====
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 Black, Susan Easton. {{FHL|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&nbsp;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. ''
-{{FHL|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 &amp;amp;amp; Morning Star, the Messenger &amp;amp;amp; 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&nbsp;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.
+{{FHL|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 &amp;amp;amp;amp; Morning Star, the Messenger &amp;amp;amp;amp; 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&nbsp;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.
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