Tracing Latter-day Saint Ancestors

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 * The Perpetual Emigration Fund - With the creation of the new Perpetual Education Fund, some members have expressed interest in finding out about their ancestor's participation in the historical Perpetual Emigration Fund. This article will help you discover if your ancestors were assisted by the fund during their immigration to Utah.

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 * LDS Emigration and Immigration[[Image:2629806.jpg|thumb|right|The Salt Lake Temple]]
 * LDS Genealogy

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 * Members of the United Brethren Baptized by Wilford Woodruff
 * Finding IGI Original Sources
 * LDS Family History Suite 2

Did You Know?

 * The Center for Family History and Genealogy at Brigham Young University has a project devoted to members of the Church who were originally from Wales. The Welch Mormon History website "seeks to preserve and share information about the early converts to Mormonism in Wales. Its main focus is on those individuals who were involved in the Mormon movement in 19th-century Wales."
 * The Tracing Mormon Pioneers website has indexed over 1,000 sources related to searching for your LDS ancestors. Included on the site is a tutorial that will help walk you through the steps to locating records about your pioneer families. Click here to read more.

Useful Websites

 * Tracing Mormon Pioneers
 * Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel
 * Tracing Mormon Pioneers
 * Mormons and Their Neighbors
 * Trails of Hope: Overland Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869
 * The Winter Quarters Project

Tracing LDS Ancestors Research Topics

 * LDS Archives and Libraries
 * LDS Biographies
 * LDS Census
 * LDS Church History
 * LDS Church Records
 * LDS Colonization
 * LDS Directories
 * LDS Emigration and Immigration
 * LDS Family History Suite 2
 * LDS Genealogy
 * LDS Historical Geography
 * LDS History
 * LDS Membership Records
 * LDS Military Records
 * LDS Missionaries
 * LDS Newspapers
 * LDS Obituaries

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