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Guides

 * Johni Cerny, and Wendy L. Elliott, The Library: a Guide to the LDS Family History Library (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Pub., 1988).
 * J. Carlyle Parker, Going to Salt Lake City to Do Family History Research, 3rd ed. (Turlock, Calif.: Marietta Pub., 1996).

Substitute Repositories
If you cannot find a source you need at the Family History Library, try one or more of these substitutes.

Repositories with very large genealogical collections


 * Library of Congress - largest library in the world including "one of the world's premier collections of U.S. and foreign genealogical and local historical publications," in the Local History and Genealogy Reading Room.
 * National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) - preserves and documents United States federal government and historical records, including American Indian papers, federal censuses, U.S. passenger arrival lists, passport applications, federal land, military and war records, and some naturalizations.
 * Allen County Public Library - home of the Periodical Source Index (PERSI), more than 350,000 printed books and 513,000 items of microfilm/fiche including family histories, censuses, city directories, passenger lists, military records, local histories, American Indians, African Americans, Canadian, British, and German collections.

Repositories with significant Latter-day Saint collections


 * Church History Library and Archives - documents the history of the LDS Church from 1830 to now with diaries, "manuscripts, Church records, photographs, oral histories, architectural drawings, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, maps, microforms, and audiovisual materials."
 * Daughters of Utah Pioneers - the Museum displays artifacts, and the History Department collects and preserves about 100,000 histories of pioneers who set out for, settled, or were born in Utah Territory before 10 May 1869.
 * Utah State Historical Society - thousands of family histories, photographs, books, manuscript collections, telephone directories, maps, newspapers, yearbooks, and periodicals are available in the Research Center and online.