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Free in the HBLL, this subscription-based genealogy research website has over 5 billion records online and more being added almost daily.

This FamilySearch Wiki article is a summary of the records currently available at Ancestry.com for LDS research.

FamilySearch Wiki article about Family History Suite 2 CD.

The primary resources offered by FamilySearch are searchable databases, research guidance, and the catalog of the Family History Library.

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An index to 100,000 biographies on Mormons located in over 200 sources in the Harold B. Lee Library. Compiled by Marvin E. Wiggins

The Mormon Migration website, hosted by the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, provides a place for historical and genealogical research into the world-wide migration records and history about the 19th and 20th century movement of thousands of immigrants from many nations who are part of the membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, more commonly known as the LDS Church or the Mormon Church.

The most complete index of individuals and companies that crossed the plains in Church companies between 1847 and 1868, although many names are still missing. Includes the full-text of first-person narrative accounts of crossing the plains.

This site seeks to preserve and share information about the early converts to Mormonism in Wales. It contains primary sources such as journals.

Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1830-1848 ; Early Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; LDS Biographical Encyclopedia;Marriages in the Nauvoo Region 1839-1845; From Kirtland to Salt Lake City; Property Transactions in Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, and Surrounding Communities, 1839-1859; Seventy Quorum Membership, 1835-1846;
Pioneers of 1847: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance;Inscriptions Found on Tombstones and Monuments in Early Latter-day Saint Burial Grounds; Members of the Willie and Martin Handcart Companies of 1856; Members of the Mormon Battalion: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance; Members of the Ellsworth and McArthur Handcart Companies of 1856.

An alphabetical card index of individuals on 75 rolls of microfilm with 1,500,000 entries from over 1,200 international sources about Latter-day Saints from 1830 to the mid-1900s. It indexes many of the sources listed below.

The Church took censuses to track members and Church growth throughout the world. The first Church wide census was taken in 1914. Beginning in 1920, the Church took a census every five years until 1960, except 1945.

An alphabetical card index to the Saints who crossed the ocean on their way to Utah. This index focuses only on ships chartered by Church agents with cards filed by the head of family or group leader. Also located on the Mormon Immigration CD.

Arranged by year of departure from Great Britain, then by ship.

Records identify Latter-day Saints who registered with the LDS Emigration Office in Liverpool, England between 1849 to 1885 and 1899 to 1925.

Containing 8 million family group records filed alphabetically by the father’s or husband’s surname and then by given name and birth year.

Compiled from civil, ward, and branch records from the 1880s to the 1940s.. Arranged alphabetically by surname of bride and groom.

An alphabetical card index of full-time missionaries set apart up to 1971. Actual missionary records are located in the Church History Library.

This is a large alphabetical index by member name of mostly English branch membership records (1839–1913).

Before searching membership records, researchers should determine which ward or branch an ancestor resided in, then search by specific locality and time period. A Church-wide index to membership records is not available.

An alphabetic card index to proxy and names of baptisms for the dead performed in Nauvoo from 1840-1845.

This is a personal name index to over 71,000 records including Nauvoo property records, tax lists, ship lists, censuses, family group records, and research notes. Shows the name, sex, and source information for each entry.

An alphabetical index of names of persons whose obituaries appeared in several Salt Lake City newspapers and a few LDS publications as well.

An index of persons who received a patriarchal blessing from 1833 to 1971. Fiche index (6,334,933) covers more years (1833-1993) but the card index contains more information.

The fund used to assist approximately 30,000 LDS converts to migrate to Utah. There is no complete list of members who used PEF exists. Many members used the fund, and paid their debt; enabling other members to emigrate.

Records are arranged in numerical order by quorum number.

In the winter of 1852–1853 the bishops of Utah took a census. They recorded the name of the head of each family in their ward or branch.

Alphabetical card index of individuals who immigrated to Utah before 10 May 1869 in LDS Church sponsored immigrant companies. Cards are filed by the head of the family or group leader.