The Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel database is one of the most comprehensive and amazing genealogical resources available anywhere. It is hosted by the Church History Library (CHL) in Salt Lake City, Utah, but has become what it is due to the dedication and service of one of the librarians at the CHL and a small handful of dedicated, long-term, detail-oriented service missionaries. (Here's a previous post about the database.)
The database includes members of the Church who traveled to Utah before the railroad, whether from the east or the west. Most of these people joined the Church in the eastern United States or Europe and crossed the Plains heading west, but some pioneers, including the Parkinsons listed below, joined the Church in Australia and sailed across the Pacific Ocean to join the Mormon settlement in San Bernardino, California, and from there traveled across the desert to Utah.
The database includes members of the Church who traveled to Utah before the railroad, whether from the east or the west. Most of these people joined the Church in the eastern United States or Europe and crossed the Plains heading west, but some pioneers, including the Parkinsons listed below, joined the Church in Australia and sailed across the Pacific Ocean to join the Mormon settlement in San Bernardino, California, and from there traveled across the desert to Utah.
I've included links below to each of my ancestors who is listed in the database, and a few who aren't in it.
In each link, if you click on the name of the pioneer, you will be able to see notes and sources for the pioneer, including every mention of the pioneer in various records, as well as a link to the pioneer company, which lists all known members of the company and all known sources about the company.
If you have additional primary information (autobiographies, diaries, obituaries, census or immigration records) that would add to the valuable information in the Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel database, you can send it to the missionaries to add to the collection.
Tanner Ancestors
Christensen, Jens (1819-1866)
- Andrew H. Scott Company (1866)
- Andrew H. Scott Company (1866)
- Jesse Murphy Company (1860)
- Jesse Murphy Company (1860)
- Jesse Murphy Company (1860)
- John F. Sanders Company (1863)
- John F. Sanders Company (1863)
- Andrew H. Scott Company (1866)
Parkinson, Mary Ann Bryant Porter (1826-1905)
- Unidentified Companies (1859)
- Unidentified Companies (1859)
Tanner, Eliza Ellen Parkinson (1857-1930)
- Unknown Company (1859)
Tanner, Henry Martin (1852-1935)
- Not in database; the San Bernardino pioneers are listed, so he should be in here, probably in the Amasa Lyman/Charles C. Rich Company (1857)
- Willard Richards Company (1848)
- Willard Richards Company (1848)
- Willard Richards Company (1848)
- Amasa Lyman/Charles C. Rich Company (1857)
- Sidney Tanner Company (1861)
Morgan Ancestors
Christensdatter, Christiane (1799-?)
- Not in database; left Denmark on a ship in 1866; more research needs to be done to figure out which year she crossed the plains.
- See entries in Tanner section.
- Andrew H. Scott Company (1866)
- Joseph W. Young (1853)
- Not in database; needs to be added (1854) [Now in database.]
- Unidentified Companies (1866)
- (He was not a member of the church at the time.)
- Joseph W. Young Company (1853)
- Joseph W. Young Company (1853)
- Homer Duncan Company (1862)
- Homer Duncan Company (1862)
- Also listed in the Lewis Brunson Company, but the family history notes that she traveled with the Thomas family in the Homer Duncan Company.
Wessman Ancestors
Cripps, Charles (1795-1870)
- Unidentified Companies (1863)
- Unidentified Companies (1861)
- Jacob Gates Company (1853)
- Jacob Gates Company (1853)
- Jacob Gates Company (1853)
- Jacob Gates Company (1853)
- Jacob Gates Company (1853)
Glade Ancestors
Glade, Eliza Mary Litson (1846-1920)
- Unidentified Companies (1863)
- Unidentified Companies (1861)
- Unidentified Companies (1863)
Litson, Frances Ann Mathews (1819-1885)
- Samuel D. White Company (1866)
- Samuel D. White Company (1866)
- Should she be in database? Her migration year was 1866, but she may not have crossed the plains that year or the next. This information needs to be tracked down.
- When did she and her husband cross the ocean and cross the plains?
Pettit, Rebecca Hood Hill (1845-1922)
- Brigham Young Company (1848)
Other People I've Requested Added to the Database
The Redd Slaves (Chancey, Luke, Marinda, Sam, Venus)
- James Pace Company (1850)
- Unidentified Companies (1860)
The pictures (all from Wikipedia and used under a Creative Commons License) are of Independence Rock, South Pass, the Sweetwater River (1870), Echo Canyon, and the Salt Lake Valley, major sites along the Mormon Trail.
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