Mormon Geneology

Mormon Immigration Index

[Excerpt]... The Mormon Immigration Index database includes records of more than 93,000 Latter-day Saint converts who crossed both Atlantic and Pacific oceans between 1840 and 1890 to gather in Nauvoo, Illinois, LDS outposts, and later in Utah. Data includes name, age, country of origin, port of departure and arrival, passenger list, the company leader assigned to each voyage, and other general voyage information. Although this information is primarily for those with Latter-day Saint ancestors, those who traveled with the Saints are included also.....



Conquerors of the West: Stalwart Mormon Pioneers, Vols. 1-4

[Excerpt]... This database is a collection of histories compiled by The National Society of the Sons of the Utah Pioneers. This database includes all four volumes produced by The Sons of the Utah Pioneers and indexes persons with the last names A-Z. The database includes names, dates, and other vital information about the lives of Mormon (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) pioneers who settled in Utah.....



David Rencher, New Director of the Libraries Division of the LDS Family History Department

[Excerpt]... David Rencher has been promoted to the position of Director of the Libraries Division of the Family History Department. This puts him in charge of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, the Family Search Center in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building, all of the family history centers worldwide, and the Public Outreach Department for the Family History Department of the LDS [Mormon] Church.....



LDS FamilySearch.org to Add 240 Million New Names, AuctionFerret, and more!

[Excerpt]... There hasn't been any official announcement, but two Salt Lake City newspapers report that the Mormon's popular online Web site will add a lot more records to their online database on Monday. The addition of 240 million new names will mean that a total of 640 million records will now be available. In addition, FamilySearch plans early next year to index the new Pedigree Resource File (PRF), a database of family history records being uploaded to the site by users. Only the index is expected to be online. The files containing PRF data will be available on a set of CD-ROM disks. The PRF, already listing more than 5 million names, is projected to grow at the rate of 1.2 million names per month.....



Free PAF Downloads at the LDS FamilySearch Site

[Excerpt]... Beginning Monday morning, June 28--just five weeks after the launch of its top-rated new Internet genealogy service--The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [Mormon] is offering free downloads of Personal Ancestral File® 4.0, a new Windows®-based version of its popular genealogical management program for home computers.....



LDS FamilySearch Site Eliminates 15-Minute Access Cycling

[Excerpt]... Due to the overwhelming response to the new (Mormon) LDS FamilySearch site that was officially launched on May 24, a 15-minute access cycle was implemented. After the initial launch, the site was reporting 100 million hits per day and many people had a difficult time accessing the site.....



LDS Church Officially Launches FamilySearch Site

[Excerpt]... In a press conference on Monday, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) announced the official launch of the FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service at: www.familysearch.org....



New Sources for Tracing LDS Immigrants

[Excerpt]... Many genealogical sources are available for tracing the immigration of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). These include emigration records, passenger lists, LDS mission records, LDS Church records and indexes, diaries and journals, personal voyage accounts, genealogies, newspapers, Canadian Border Crossings, computer databases, Internet sites, and many others. The release of a new compact disc, known as the Mormon Immigration Index, by the Family and Church History Department in Salt Lake City will make the task of finding nineteenth-century Mormon immigrants much easier.....



Western European CD-ROM Now Available from LDS [Mormon] Church

[Excerpt]... SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH - Twelve and a half million vital records from Western Europe are now available on CD-ROM from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [Mormon]. The Vital Records Index for Western Europe includes information extracted from birth, christening, and marriage records from the Alpine, Benelux, French, German, Italian, and Spanish regions.....



LDS Family and Church History Department Adopts XML Standard

[Excerpt]... At a technical session of the GENTECH 2001 conference last week, Randy Bryson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [Mormon] announced that the Church is now standardizing on the XML programming language for all future software products. This announcement will have an immediate impact on producers of genealogy software and eventually will benefit all genealogists.....



More on LDS ChurchÆs Adoption of the XML Standard

[Excerpt]... Last week I wrote an article titled "LDS Family and Church History Department Adopts XML Standard." In the article, I wrote, "Randy Bryson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [Mormon] announced that the Church is now standardizing on the XML programming language for all future software products."....