Pioneer Ancestry?

"Can we somehow find the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I, in actual fact, be pioneers today?"

~President Thomas S. Monson

Do you have pioneer ancestry, or are you the pioneer of today? Here is a new piece of  FamilySearch that links pioneer history to the records of the Mormon Pioneer companies. The program looks at your tree and culls your pioneer ancestors, lists the company they were in, and also lists records from those particular handcart companies. Give it a look, as you may find that your ancestor was written about in the company records... or if you are really lucky, you ancestor may have written a diary themselves! One can only hope! This site is not totally finished, but it is a really great start! 

Do You Have Pioneers in Your Attic?

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Do you have Pioneers in Your Attic?

Do you have original documents relating to the overland migration period 1842-1865? 

There is a free scanning event happening at the Pleasant Grove Library (Utah) on September 14, 2013. Attached is a flyer about the event.  This event is FREE and the scanning will be done on site. You will keep your materials and a digital copy will be sent to you. 

This is just one of may of these events scheduled around the state. For more information, click here. 

Click here to see additional scanning dates and locations.

This event is sponsored by the Utah Academic Library Consortium and Mountain West Digital Library in partnership with local libraries and museums. 

Do You Have LDS (Mormon) Pioneers in Your Pedigree?



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 Do you have LDS pioneers in your pedigree? Would you like to learn more about the LDS pioneers and their stories. Here is a great place to start! Brigham Young University's Family History Library has lots of info on these LDS pioneers. Who knows? You may be like me. Look what I found!

Amelia Evans Camp Davis
My 2nd great-grandmother
Member of the Willie Handcart Company

Pretty cool, huh! Now you give it a try. You never know what you will find!

What Do You Want to Do?

BYU's desktop at the FHL has added a new link that is exciting! Take a look at the 4th link down under Navigation and you will see the title "What Do You Want to Do." You will also see that in the new blue box on the right hand side.

http://lib.byu.edu/sites/familyhistory/

Click on either one of these links and this is what you will see...

http://lib.byu.edu/sites/familyhistory/finding-sources/

 

 

 

Say you are interested in finding some ancestors that you know were in a pioneer company traveling west. Click on the "Find LDS Ancestors" link and this is what you will see...

http://lib.byu.edu/sites/familyhistory/finding-sources/#ldsancestors

Look under "Search Pioneer Companies." When you click on the link, it will ask you for the name you are searching. You can also search by company if you know this or the year involved. This is what I found for my William Gimbert Saunders...

http://lds.org/churchhistory/library/pioneerdetails/1,15791,4018-1-21111,00.html

Now I can read about this ancestor. Also note under the sources that there is a link to read a trail excerpt. Cool, huh!

There is so much more to this desktop that all I can say is GO PLAY WITH IT! Maybe you will be able to knock down a brick wall with specific sources listed that you didn't know about or that you didn't know how to access!. Isn't the Internet wonderful?