Additional Resources
Primary Organization Research Guide
This guide is not a comprehensive list of available sources but provides key records (or a sampling of available records).
Gospel Topic: Primary
Church History Topic: Primary
A History of the Primary Organization
A Church History Department online exhibit
Primary Makes Me Happy: A Celebration of 125 Years of Primary 1878–2003
A Church History Museum online exhibit
Magazine of the Primary organization, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Issues from 1971 to present are available online.
“Junior Council: Primary TV Show Now Nine Years Old,” Church News, May 11, 1957
Marianne Holman Prescott, “Primary Celebrates 140 Years This Month,” Church News, Aug. 24, 2018
Researchers can also use search engines to find valuable resources outside of the Church History Department. Some of these resources are included below. These sources are not Church sponsored, and the Church does not endorse the content.
LDS-BSA Centennial Book Committee, Century of Honor: 100 Years of Scouting in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City: LDS-BSA Relationships, 2013).
Carol Cornwall Madsen and Susan Staker Oman. Sisters and Little Saints: One Hundred Years of Primary (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1979).
Ardis E. Parshall, “A Bundle of Bandlos,” Keepapitchinin, Aug. 31, 2008.
Ardis E. Parshall, “Bandlos (old post, new illustrations),” Keepapitchinin, Jan. 21, 2011.
Ardis E. Parshall, “‘Junior Council’: The Church Steps before the Television Camera,” Keepapitchinin, Oct. 28, 2008.
Janet Peterson and LaRene Gaunt, The Children’s Friends: Primary Presidents and Their Lives of Service (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1996).
Naomi M. Shumway, “Primary,” Encyclopedia of Mormonism, last modified May 27, 2011.