LDS Based Sources for Family History

Most newly involved family historians in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints become quickly aware of the some of the resources contained in the vast FamilySearch.org website and a few even make it over to the resources on LDS.org. But the list of Church sponsored family history resources is much longer than this one website. There are many, many more affiliated websites that contain valuable information. I thought I would spend some time and make a partial list of these resources. Here is the list. Bear in mind that it is not intended to be exhaustive and there are more resources hiding out there on the Internet. Further, exploring any one of these websites may take hours or even days.

Individual Family History Libraries or FamilySearch Libraries have very extensive and useful websites. Here are a few of the larger ones:

• Brigham Young University Family History Library
• BYU Family History Library Facebook
• BYU Family History Library YouTube
• Mesa FamilySearch Library
• Ogden FamilySearch Library
• Los Angeles FamilySearch Library
• Riverton FamilySearch Library
• St. George FamilySearch Library

Brigham Young University has a remarkably large number of valuable family history resources scattered around in their huge website. Here are a few of the more accessible resources:

• BYU Center for Family History and Genealogy
• Conference on Family History and Genealogy
• BYU Religious Education, Family History Lab
• BYU TV The Generations Project

There are two other FamilySearch websites not usually visited by researchers but with valuable information:

• FamilySearch Labs
• FamilySearch Community Trees

The Church History Library also has a lot of valuable digitized documents and resources as does the LDS.org website.

• Church History
• Church History Library
• History of the Church
• The Joseph Smith Papers
• Internet Archive - Church History Library
• LDS Church History Library Research Guides

Also see LDS Archives and Libraries. 

There are many other resources in the University libraries in Utah and elsewhere that you should investigate. Try searching for LDS history genealogy and see the results.