Early Members outside the United States

There is no master index to baptism and confirmation information for early members converted around the globe. Knowing the location where an individual lived will help you know where to search in local member records from Church units around the world.

Most baptisms outside of the United States in the early Church were performed by missionaries. If you know the name of the missionary who performed the ordinance or the mission where an individual lived at the time of their baptism, you may be able to find information in the Missionary Database. A missionary may have recorded information in a journal or diary, or mission records may contain convert information.

The Missionary Database records the service of approximately 40,000 Latter-day Saint missionaries for the century following the organization of the Church. Individual missionary pages contain personal information, where and when they served, and photographs, when available. Profiles may also contain links to digitized journals, letters, and so forth made available by the Church History Library, the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University, and FamilySearch.

Currently, the only unique indexes available are for the British Isles and Italy. New records will be added to this guide as they become available.

British Isles

Historian’s Office record of members index, circa 1960 (CR 100 33)

This is a partial, alphabetical index to selected early British membership records. It contains names drawn from selected branch and ward membership records kept in Utah stakes and the British Mission, circa 1839–1915. This index is commonly named the “Minnie Margetts Index.” Available upon request at the Church History and Family History Libraries.

Italy

Daniel B. Hill Richards’s book The Scriptural Allegory in Three Parts  (M274.5 R514s) contains baptismal information regarding Waldensian converts in Italy during the early 1850s. It is available upon request at the Church History Library.