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Important indexes of Latter-day Saint biographies are: | Important indexes of Latter-day Saint biographies are: | ||
[http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/printing/titledetailsprint.asp?titleno=480808 ''Early Church Information File''] | *[http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/printing/titledetailsprint.asp?titleno=480808 ''Early Church Information File''] <ref> ''Early Church Information File'' Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1991. (Family History Library films 1750655–729). </ref> Over 1 million cards index the names of Latter-day Saints and their neighbors in more than 1,200 sources. It covers from 1830 to about 1914. These sources include membership records, ward histories, family histories, local histories, journals, collective biographies, priesthood records, missionary records, periodicals, cemetery records, immigration records, and civil marriage records from selected counties in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada and California. This card index on microfilm gives a person’s name, the date of the event, and a reference to the source. The original source often provides additional biographical information. For further instructions see: | ||
[[Early Church Information File (ECIF)|''Early Church Information File Resource Guide'']] (34544). Salt Lake City, Utah: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1993. (Family History Library book 929.1 F21rg LDS; fiche 6105233). | *[[Early Church Information File (ECIF)|''Early Church Information File Resource Guide'']] <ref>'' Early Church Information File Resource Guide'' (34544). Salt Lake City, Utah: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1993. (Family History Library book 929.1 F21rg LDS; fiche 6105233). </ref> | ||
[http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=837165&disp=LDS+family+history+suite+2%20%20&columns=*,0,0 ''LDS Family History Suite 2'']. Provo, Utah: Infobases, 1999. (Family History Library compact disc no. 205 pt. 1.) Select one of the two following databases you would like to search for Latter-day Saint (LDS) families. Each database is word searchable. When you find a name, you see the actual entry in the context of the book. The two databases are: | *[http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=837165&disp=LDS+family+history+suite+2%20%20&columns=*,0,0 ''LDS Family History Suite 2''] <ref> ''LDS Family History Suite 2''. Provo, Utah: Infobases, 1999. (Family History Library compact disc no. 205 pt. 1.) </ref> Select one of the two following databases you would like to search for Latter-day Saint (LDS) families. Each database is word searchable. When you find a name, you see the actual entry in the context of the book. The two databases are: | ||
The ''Pioneer Heritage Library'' includes over 10,000 photographs. It also has many biographical sketches, stories, diaries and autobiographies, histories, early LDS newspapers and periodicals, doctrinal works, emigration sources, and the ''Utah Historical Quarterly''. It includes major sources such as Wiggins’ ''Mormons and Their Neighbors'', Black’s ''Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1830–1848'', and Bitton’s ''Guide Mormon Diaries and Autobiographies''. It also includes sources like the published series of pioneer histories by the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Jenson’s ''Encyclopedic History of the Church'', and Joseph Smith’s ''History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints''. Some of the sources in this library are not available elsewhere. | The ''Pioneer Heritage Library'' includes over 10,000 photographs. It also has many biographical sketches, stories, diaries and autobiographies, histories, early LDS newspapers and periodicals, doctrinal works, emigration sources, and the ''Utah Historical Quarterly''. It includes major sources such as Wiggins’ ''Mormons and Their Neighbors'', Black’s ''Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1830–1848'', and Bitton’s ''Guide Mormon Diaries and Autobiographies''. It also includes sources like the published series of pioneer histories by the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Jenson’s ''Encyclopedic History of the Church'', and Joseph Smith’s ''History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints''. Some of the sources in this library are not available elsewhere. | ||
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These sources in these databases are also available for a subscription fee at the Ancestry.com Internet site discussed in the "[[LDS Archives and Libraries|Archives and Libraries]]" section of this outline. | These sources in these databases are also available for a subscription fee at the Ancestry.com Internet site discussed in the "[[LDS Archives and Libraries|Archives and Libraries]]" section of this outline. | ||
Wiggins, Marvin E. [http://www.lib.byu.edu/Ancestry/ ''Mormons and Their Neighbors: An Index of Over 75,000 Biographical Sketches from 1820 to the Present'']. [Provo, Utah]: Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, 1984. (Family History Library book 978 D32w). This is a name index to biographies in 194 published sources. It includes Church members from the western United States, southwestern Canada, and Northern Mexico. This is indexed in the ''Early Church Information File'', is included in the ''LDS Family History Suite 2'', and is available on the Internet at http://www.lib.byu.edu/Ancestry/<br> | * ''Mormons and Their Neighbors: An Index of Over 75,000 Biographical Sketches from 1820 to the Present''] <ref> Wiggins, Marvin E. [http://www.lib.byu.edu/Ancestry/ ''Mormons and Their Neighbors: An Index of Over 75,000 Biographical Sketches from 1820 to the Present'']. [Provo, Utah]: Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, 1984. (Family History Library book 978 D32w). </ref> This is a name index to biographies in 194 published sources. It includes Church members from the western United States, southwestern Canada, and Northern Mexico. This is indexed in the ''Early Church Information File'', is included in the ''LDS Family History Suite 2'', and is available on the Internet at http://www.lib.byu.edu/Ancestry/<br> | ||
Bitton, Davis. [http://mormonstudies.byu.edu/guide/bittons_guide.pdf ''Guide to Mormon Diaries and Autobiographies'']. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1977. (Family History Library book 016.2893 B549g; film 1059488 item 2; fiche 6053254). This book provides a brief synopsis of each diary or autobiography and lists the names of libraries where the originals or copies may be found. It lists 2,894 works alphabetically by author. It is indexed in the ''Early Church Information File'' and included in the ''LDS Family History Suite 2''. | Bitton, Davis. [http://mormonstudies.byu.edu/guide/bittons_guide.pdf ''Guide to Mormon Diaries and Autobiographies'']. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1977. (Family History Library book 016.2893 B549g; film 1059488 item 2; fiche 6053254). This book provides a brief synopsis of each diary or autobiography and lists the names of libraries where the originals or copies may be found. It lists 2,894 works alphabetically by author. It is indexed in the ''Early Church Information File'' and included in the ''LDS Family History Suite 2''. | ||
=== '''Compiled Biographies''' === | === '''Compiled Biographies''' === | ||
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#In the Subject Search look under: [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=subjectdetails&subject=312408&subject_disp=Mormons+%2D+Biography&columns=*,0,0 MORMONS— BIOGRAPHY] | #In the Subject Search look under: [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=subjectdetails&subject=312408&subject_disp=Mormons+%2D+Biography&columns=*,0,0 MORMONS— BIOGRAPHY] | ||
#In the Locality Search look for biographies from a specific place under the state, county, or town, for example: | #In the Locality Search look for biographies from a specific place under the state, county, or town, for example: | ||
:*[STATE]— BIOGRAPHY | |||
:*[STATE], [COUNTY]— BIOGRAPHY | |||
:*[STATE], [COUNTY], [TOWN]— BIOGRAPHY<br> | |||
==References== | |||
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[[Category:Tracing_LDS_Ancestors]] | [[Category:Tracing_LDS_Ancestors]] | ||