Latter-day Saint Biographies: Difference between revisions

*{{FHL|480808|title-id|disp=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 available [https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2078505 online] and 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:

*{{FHL|691157|title-id|disp=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>

*{{FHL|837165|title-id|disp=LDS Family History Suite}} <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 families. Each database is word searchable. When you find a name, you see the actual entry in the context of the book.

*[http://mormonhistory.byu.edu/ The Studies in Mormon History Database] includes citations to articles, books, theses, and Ph.D. dissertations dealing with the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, written from the time of its inception in 1830 to the present. It is intended to be comprehensive and provides citations to over 2,000 Latter-day Saint biographies and 800 published Latter-day Saint diaries. The diary entries have abstracts describing dates of coverage and a summary of the contents. There are some links to full-text items.<br>

The ''Latter-day Saint Vital Records Library'' includes 12 reference works about the pioneers that must be searched separately. The majority of the books in this section were compiled by Harvey and Susan Easton Black. It also includes an index to Utah deaths from 1898 to 1905 excluding Salt Lake County. These 12 sources are now available on the Internet at [http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/search.aspx WorldVitalRecords.com].<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/ biographical sketches].

*''Guide to Mormon Diaries and Autobiographies'' <ref>Bitton, Davis. {{FHL|2605|title-id|disp=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).</ref>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''.