Indexes
Family History Research Guide
These indexes have been created to help researchers locate information in large collections or groups of records; they provide a list of names, locations, or topics that refer you to more records, articles, or other information. Please note that while many indexes have been digitized, the actual records may not be available online. You might need to visit the library to access information referenced in indexes.
Public Works Accounts Books Index
This is an index of men employed in building and making furnishings for public buildings and Church structures, including the Salt Lake Temple. The men worked as carpenters, masons, blacksmiths, plasterers, machinists, painters, quarrymen, mason tenders, lumbermen, millwrights, and sawyers. The index includes each person’s initial hiring date. The individual records provide more information about approximate length of employment and can be accessed at the Church History Library in collection CR 5 7 using information obtained in the index. Ask a staff member for assistance in accessing records from the index.
Winter Quarters Wards Membership Lists 1846-1848
Created by Church History Department staff and drawing from many sources, this digitized index lists members of the wards in Winter Quarters during the exodus and westward movement. It lists basic information about household composition. However, it only contains information for approximately 25 percent of Church members who passed through Winter Quarters.
This three-volume index records members of Quorums of Seventies who were called or ordained from 1835 to 1850. It contains basic biographical information (birth, parentage, ordination dates, quorum number, and so on). It has been digitized and is available to the public via the Church History Catalog.
High Priests of Nauvoo and Early Salt Lake
This digitized index lists names of men ordained to the office of high priest during the Nauvoo era and the early years in Salt Lake City. This index lists basic biographical information (birth, parentage, and so on) taken from minutes and records available at the library.
This is a digitized index to members of 23 branches of the Church that existed in Iowa during the Nauvoo era and the trek west between 1839 and 1859. To use the index, locate an ancestor’s name and go to the corresponding branch records to obtain the name of their branch. Search the Church History Catalog by branch name to find the records referenced in the index.