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Don't miss this great summary of the history of women suffrage in Utah. Votes for [Mormon/Utah] Women! .

While he served as President of the Southern States Mission, John Morgan or his missionaries sent regular letters to the Deseret News keep...

I am slowly starting to build a case that the Tanner family disliked plural marriage and, with the possible exception of Nathan, only pract...

In 1890 Ann Prior Jarvis sat down with a new blank book and wrote out a clean copy of her autobiography. She got 33 pages in and then never...

From Flickr , used as is. Sometime in 1810, perhaps in the later half of the year after the harvest was over, a census taker followed t...

From Wikipedia . The Mormon Tabernacle Choir was broadcasting from the Salt Lake Tabernacle instead of the Conference Center this morni...

The front page of the October 27, 1857 Daily Alta California is still not showing up in FamilySearch. If there is a review process, it is ...

After I put up the last post about Sidney Tanner and the Mountain Meadows Massacre , I added the newspaper to his FamilySearch entry and al...

Have you heard about Ancestry's wonderful new U.S. Wills and Probate collection? I've been using it all day and have found some gr...

Daily Alta California, Mountain Meadows Massacre, October 27, 1857, 1. Sidney Tanner and William Mathews were freighting between Salt ...