AWESOME Utah PIONEER Internet LInks


 by Peggy Ash  June 2017

*My Favorites with the Highest Return Value

Pioneer
*Overland Trails Pioneer Data Base 
FamilySearch Pioneer Campaign
Daughters of Utah Pioneers
*Daughters of Utah Pioneers-Pioneer History Index
*Daughters of Utah Pioneers-Pioneer Photo Index
DUP Museums-located throughout Utah, Idaho, and Nevada
*Sons of the Utah Pioneers, WONDERFUL Magazine  
Nauvoo City Cemetery Burials Index 
Early Latter-Day Saints 
Winter Quarters Interactive Pioneer Cemetery Map 
Pioneer Search with interesting Sourcing  
Ship Brooklyn Association
Various Downloadable Articles by Fred E. Woods  
Utah Territorial Case Files (Free on Fold3)
Locations along the Trail 

Handcarts
Willie Handcart Company Daily Doings
Willie and Martin Companies- Good Info, Photos
Great Wikipedia Article

Mormon Battalion
Mormon Battalion FamilySearch Campaign
Great Wikipedia Article
Mormon Battalion Website
Mormon Battalion Pension Files-Pay Site-(Free at Family History Center)
Old Mormon Battalion Website (I prefer) 

Emigration/Immigration
*Mormon Migration-Ship Information
Convert Immigrants Article-Very Good
Perpetual Emigration Fund Names
British to US Ship Emigration
Chart of English History
Castle Gardens Immigration Center (Prior to Ellis Island) (Many records burned)
BYU Immigrant Ancestors Project, Indexed

LDS
Early Church Information File-plus other links
Minnie Margetts File-Index of membership Records
FamilySearch Wiki-Tracing LDS Ancestors
FamilySearch Wiki-LDS Online Genealogy Records
World Cat-World Wide Catalog of Libraries-Search names and Localities
*Early Mormon Missionary Database: 1830-1930
LDS Member Name Index, 1830-45
Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1848


LDS Church Ordinances

*Patriarchal Blessing Request-For you or your ancestors
LDS Temple Records, with Temple Chronology Chart
Nauvoo Temple Endowment Name Index
Priesthood Line of Authority for Ancestors and Self

Utah
*Utah Division of Archives and Record Services-Excellent
Utah Division of State History-Excellent
*FamilySearch Catalog-Utah
FamilySearch Wiki-Utah
FamilySearch-Utah Historical Records
FamilySearch Wiki-Utah Online Records
*Utah Digital Newspapers-Keyword and name searchable
Utah Land Records Information
Utah Court Records Information 
*GLO/BLM-First Purchase of Government Land-Records

 BYU Collections and Biographies
BYU Harold B Lee Library Mormonism, Utah, and the West 
BYU Harold B Lee Collection Mormon’s and Their Neighbors
BYU Harold B Lee Library Historical Photographs
BYU Collection Winter Quarters
BYU Trails of Hope: Overland Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869
BYU Harold B Lee Library Mormon Missionary Diaries

Utah Pioneer Biographies Journals, Diaries, Biographies, Autobiographies and Letters of Some Early Mormons and Others Who Knew Joseph Smith, Jr. and/or His Contemporaries

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