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Online Resources

 * 1850-1902 - Interior Department territorial papers, Utah, 1850-1902
 * 1870-1896 - Utah, Territorial Case Files of the U.S. District Courts, 1870-1896
 * 1887-1896 - Oath records, 1887-1896

History of Polygamy
The Church started practicing polygamy in....

Additional Reading

 * The persistence of polygamy : Fundamentalist Mormon polygamy from 1890 to the present. Edited by Newell G. Bringhurst and Craig L. Foster. Independence, Missouri : John Whitmer Books, 2015.

Tips

 * Research each wife and her children.
 * Look at the ages and birth years of the children. You'll find that some children couldn't have physically been born to the same woman.
 * Check for multiple households in the censuses. Wives didn't always live with one another or even with their common husband.
 * Polygamist husbands didn't always live close to their wives. Sometimes the husband would move far away (but they didn't get a divorce). Sometimes husbands served missions and lived far away from their wives.
 * Use other records for Latter-day Saints as well as records you'd use for U.S. research.