Riverton FamilySearch Library Resources
Hardware and Equipment
- 127 Patron Computers
- 20 Microfilm and Microfiche Readers
- Digital Scanning from films
- Copy Machines and Printers
- Conference Rooms
- Training Rooms
- Teleconferencing
Discription of some of the above databases
Footnote is a subscription-based website that features searchable,
original documents that provide users a view of the events, places and people
that shaped the American nation and the world. The site will have over 25
million digital images by the end of 2007. Footnote is currently working with
FamilySearch to index the American Revolutionary War Pension files. Additional
projects with FamilySearch are under development.
Individuals with Footnote subscriptions will be able to sign in with the
same Footnote username and password they use at home in order to save, annotate,
and upload content.
Godfrey Memorial Library has an extensive collection of essential
resources to assist genealogical and historical research. Resources include
newspapers, city and business directories, vital records, printed census
records, state, county, and local histories, as well as numerous family
histories, family bible records, and service and pension records.
Heritage Quest online includes the complete set of U.S. Federal Census
images from 1790 to 1930 including names and indexes for many of the sets. Users
will be able to find people and places located in over 20,000 published family
and local histories and PERSI, an index of over 1.9 million genealogy and local
history articles. Other online databases include Revolutionary War Pension,
Bounty-Land Warrant Application files, and the Freedman Bank Records.
Access to this service will be limited to 1,400 family history centers in
North America. Patrons should contact their local family history center to see
if this service is available. Family history center directors should contact
Family History Center Support with questions.
World Vital Records provides access to research helps and has a wide
variety of international records, including more than 60 parish registers,
Scottish death records, UK marriages, and Irish prisoner records. There are more
than 300 newspapers with 100,000 pages added a month, and over 500 online
databases, including vital, military, land, pension records, reference
materials, family histories, maps, gazetteers, and international coops. With the
recent Quintin Publications partnership, World Vital Records will soon have more
than 10,000 databases online. At least one new database is added every business
day.
Microfilm Collection and Film Ordering
- The Library is beginning to assemble a collection of roughly 50,000 often requested films from England, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Massachusets.
- The films held will be presented on a catalog on the website familysearch.org/fhc/riverton
- The cost of ordering microfilm will be $2.50 for a short-term loan
- Films ordered before noon will be available at noon the following day
Riverton FamilySearch Library
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!!! NEWS FLASH !!!
Riverton FamilySearch Library Open House
Thursday June 17, 1 - 8
Friday June 18, 1 - 8
Saturday June 19, 10 - 5
- Located at 3740 West Market Center Drive in Riverton. Inside the Riverton Office Building. (East of Home Depot on 13400 South/Bangerter)
- Phone 801-240-9601
- Email: ut_rivertonfslibrary@familysearch.org
- Center officially opens on June 21, 2010.
Upcoming Events
June 17 - 19 Open House
June 24 - 25 Large Family History Center Directors Conference
- For invited directors of Large Family History Centers
July 17 Saturday Seminar 9 - 12
- First of a monthly series of Saturday Seminars
- Opening speaker Diane Loosle
- Also including Don and Diane Snow; Sharon Hintze and others
- Saturday Seminars include opening speaker first hour followed by your choice of 4 classes the remaining 2 hours
August 21 Saturday Seminar 9 - 12
September 18 Saturday Seminar 9 - 12
October 15 - 16 1st Riverton FamilySearch Library Conference
- 1 - 5 on Friday; 9 - 2 on Saturday
- An exciting Family History event including a well known speaker for plenary session and 5 streams of classes.
- Entry will be free
- Prior registration required
November 20 Saturday Seminar
Talks and Classes
Research Workshop 2010
Runs each Thursday evening at 7 PM, through September 9th
General Public Invited
Class Schedule
June 17 U.S. Census
June 24 Vital Records
July 1 Maps
July 8 Land Records
July 15 Probate Records
July 22 Church Records
July 29 LDS Church Records
Aug 5 Military - Early Wars to Civil War
Aug 12 Military - Late Wars, Civil War to Present Day
Aug 19, 26 Emigration Records
Sept 2 Naturalization, Paleography, Old Handwriting
Sept 9 Advanced Class - Migration, New
England, Southern, Mid Atlantic, Mid Western
Staffing
Applying to join the staff:
Those who can serve at least 16 hours a week are invited to apply as a Church Service Missionary using the form provided on lds.org under "Serving in the Church." The form should be signed by the Bishop and Stake President.The form is then mailed to the address on the form. Those who cannot serve 16 hours, but can serve at least 7 hours a week (one shift) are invited to send an email to ut_riverton@familysearch.org or to telephone 801-240-9601.
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Databases & Software
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- Ancestry (use for free)
- Heritage Quest
- Footnote.com
- NewEnglandAncestors.org
- Godfrey Memorial Library
- US 19th C Newspapers
- US Civil War Research Database
- US Civil War Letters and Diaries
- Images of the American Civil War
- FindMyPast
- TheGenealogist
- Times Digital Archives (UK)
- Oxford English Dictionary
- British Library 19th C Newspapers
- WorldVitalRecords
- Genline.com (Swedish Records)
- SVAR (National Archives of Sweden)
- Pedigree Resource File
- FamilySearch DOS
- Personal Ancestral File
- Family Insight
- RootsMagic
- Ancestral Quest
- Legacy
- Family Tree Maker
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