Issue 44.10
Dr. Fred E. Woods, professor of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, has recently reported that the Mormon Migration website has been officially launched:
http://lib.byu.edu/mormonmigration/index.php
This website is hosted by the Harold B. Lee Library at BYU.
To summarize its contents, this website comprises much of his research on Mormon emigration, immigration, and migration over the past fifteen years. This first stage of development includes all of the material from the Mormon Immigration Index on compact disc (CD-ROM), namely, 543 voyages with about 90,000 Mormon passengers, and over 1,000 first person Latter-day Saint immigrant accounts for the years from 1840 to 1890, as well as additional information to interpret the story of the Mormons immigrating to America during the nineteenth century. In the next phase, Dr. Woods will add the digital scans of the original passenger lists from 1849 to 1932 from European Emigration Records consisting of passenger lists of foreign converts from the British Isles and Scandinavia, with specific records of Latter-day Saints from the Netherlands and Sweden. In addition, the project will provide the extraction material for over 2,000 additional voyages as well as the passenger lists and many additional first person accounts for the entire period of 1840 to1932. For further information, contact:
Dr. Fred E. Woods
Richard L. Evans Chair of Religious Understanding
Brigham Young University
365 E JSB
Provo, UT 84602
801-422-3366
You might need to do some exploring on different name spellings. My ancestor Richard Worthen (9 Oct 1793 – 12 Sep 1845) is recorded on the immigration index as Richard Wharton. Because of notes in his history about the Ship: John Cummins and leaving the 20 February. I was able to find them. You can search by the name of the person, the place or voyage you are interested in.
Shanna Jones is a professional genealogist, now accepting new clients. For additional information, Shanna can be reached at (435) 628-4900 or shannasjones@msn.com.