Websites of Interest
Historical Resources: | |
Early LDS Database | http://www.earlylds.com (Available here also the Pioneer Research Library Master Index) |
Crossroads to the West Project | |
Pioneer Cemeteries Project | |
BYU Winter Quarters Project | |
Pioneer Overland Companies | |
Mormon Migration | |
Harold B Lee Library Collections | |
Immigrant Ancestors Project | |
LDS Church History Library | |
World Vital Records Databases | http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/ (Requires subscription) |
The Travels of the Willie Handcart Co. | |
Scandinavian Latter-day Saint Research | |
Welsh Mormon History | |
Mormon Pioneer Search | |
Mormon Battalion Wikipedia | |
Virtual Trail: Mormon Battalion Trail | http://virtualtrails.org/viewer.aspx (Choose Mormon Battalion Trail from drop down list) |
Fold3 Military Records | http://www.fold3.com/title_773/mexican_war_service_records_mormon/ |
Mormon Pioneer Historic Resource Study | http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/mopi/hrst.htm |
Trails of Hope: Overland Diaries and Letters, 1846 -1869 | |
Family Search, Family History Books | https://books.familysearch.org/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=FHD_PUBLIC |
Genealogical Databases: | |
FamilySearch - FamilyTree | http://www.familysearch.org/search (Includes: Records, Genealogies, Catalog, Books, WiKi) |
Ancestry | http://www.ancestry.com/ (Requires subscription) |
MyHeritage | |
Place Research: The early Latter-day Saints settled in the original Pottawattamie County, Iowa the area is today composed of eight counties. | |
Iowa State Historical Society | |
Cass County IA USGenWeb | |
Crawford County IA USGenWeb | |
Fremont County IA USGenWeb | |
Harrison County IA USGenWeb | |
Mills County IA USGenWeb | |
Monona County IA USGenWeb | |
Montgomery County IA USGenWeb | |
Page County IA USGenWeb | |
Pottawattamie Co IA USGenWeb | |
Shelby County IA USGenWeb | |
Nebraska State Historical Society | |
Cass County NE USGenWeb | |
Douglas County NE USGenWeb | |
Otoe County NE USGenWeb | |
Sarpy County NE USGenWeb | |
Washington County NE USGenWeb | |
Mormon Trail | https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Mormon_Trail |
Journals: | |
Book of Abraham Project - Journals | |
BYU Studies Biographies | http://byustudies.byu.edu/Resources/BioAlpha/MBRegisterA.aspx |
Fremont and Mills County Biographies - free book online | http://www.archive.org/stream/biographicalhistfmc00lewi#page/n7/mode/2up |
Harrison County 1891 Bio Index | |
Monona Co., Biographical Index | |
Montgomery County Biographical Index | |
Pottawattamie County Biographical History | |
Trails of Hope Journals | |
Maps: | |
USGS Place Finder | |
David Rumsey Iowa Maps | |
Nebraska State Maps | |
Iowa Heritage Digital Collections – Click on Maps | |
Iowa Geographic Map Server | |
Bureau of Land Management Land Records | |
Mormon Trails Association | |
Virtual Trail: Mormon Battalion Trail | |
Cemeteries: | |
Find a Grave | |
Iowa Gravestone Photo Project | |
Interment.net | |
HPRG Cemetery Project | |
1 Billion Graves | |
Census Records: | |
Lee County Illinois Census 1840 | |
NE Territorial Census 1854, 44, 56 | |
Annotated 1850 Iowa Census, Pottawattamie County | http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/indexinfo.aspx?ix=seb_ann1850cens_iowa_pott |
General Search, How-to Tools: | |
Google Genealogical Helps | |
Google Search | http://www.google.com (When searching for full names place first and last name in quotation marks, i.e. “John Doe”) |
Google Book Search | |
Scribd Book Search | |
Tracing LDS Ancestors | https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Category:Tracing_LDS_Ancestors |
Tracing Mormon Pioneers | |
Family Search Genealogical Wiki | |
Early Saints Research Group Consortium | |
Relative Finder | https://roots-fb.cs.byu.edu/ |