Documenting the Lives of Mormon Women: #NGS2013 Links

Libraries/Archives

Libraries in  the United States: http://www.librarysites.info/

WorldCat:  http://www.worldcat.org/

NUCMC (National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections:  http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/

ArchiveGrid:  http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/

Mountain West Digital Library: http://mwdl.org/

Utah State Archives: http://www.archives.state.ut.us/

Online Archive of California: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/

U.C. Berkley, Bancroft Library, Western Americana Collection: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/westernamericana.html

Digitized Books

Google Books: http://books.google.com/

Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/

Internet Archive: http://archive.org/index.php

Hathi Trust: http://www.hathitrust.org/

FamilySearch: http://familysearch.org

Newspapers

Utah Digital Newspapers: http://digitalnewspapers.org/

Chronicling America: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

Missouri Digital Newspaper Project: http://shs.umsystem.edu/newspaper/mdnp/index.shtml

GenealogyBank: http://www.genealogybank.com/

19^th Century Mormon Article Newspaper Index: http://lib.byu.edu/digital/19cMormonArticles/

LDS Repositories and Websites

International Society Daughters of the Utah Pioneers (DUP): http://www.dupinternational.org/

Church History Library:  http://churchhistorylibrary.lds.org/

Harold B. Lee Library, BYU : http://lib.byu.edu/

Early Latter-day Saints: http://www.earlylds.com/

FamilySearch Research Wiki: https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Main_Page

(Conduct a keyword search on   “Early Church Information File,” “Mormon” and Tracing LDS Ancestors.”)

The Research Center ( Utah State Archives and Utah State History): http://historyresearch.utah.gov/

Cyndi’s List- LDS: http://www.cyndislist.com/lds

LDS Women Resources

Relief Society Magazine Index: http://lib.byu.edu/digital/rsmag/ 

The Relief Society Magazine, begun as The Relief Society Bulletin, started publication in 1914 and was discontinued in 1970. 

Mormon Women’s Studies Resource: http://mormonwomen.byu.edu/inside.html

Mormon Women’s History Initiative: http://mormonwomenshistory.org/resources

Women’s Manuscript Collection, BYU: http://lib.byu.edu/sites/muw/womens/

Books

Carter, Kate B. The Mormons in Mexico. Utah: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Central Co, 1953.

Carter, Kate B. Heart Throbs of the West. Salt Lake City: Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, 1939.

Jenson, Andrew. Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Salt Lake City: A. Jenson History Co, 1901. (Digitized on FamilySearch).

Larson, Carl V, and Shirley N. Maynes. The Women of the Mormon Battalion. Logan, Utah: The Author, 1995.

Madsen, Carol C. In Their Own Words: Women and the Story of Nauvoo. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Co, 1994. 

Maynes, Shirley N. Five Hundred Wagons Stood Still: Mormon Battalion Wives. Sandy, Utah: S. Maynes, 1999.

Nielson, Carol H. The Salt Lake City 14th Ward Album Quilt, 1857: Stories of the Relief Society Women and Their Quilt. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2004. 

Noall, Claire A. W. Guardians of the Hearth: Utah's Pioneer Midwives and Women Doctors. Bountiful, Utah: Horizon Publishers, 1974

Romney, Thomas C. The Mormon Colonies in Mexico. Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press, 2005.

Sessions, Patty B, and Donna T. Smart. Mormon Midwife: The 1846-1888 Diaries of Patty Bartlett Sessions. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1997. 

Sperry, Kip. A Guide to Mormon Family History Sources. Provo, Utah: Ancestry Pub, 2007.