Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1848

Source Information

Ancestry.com. Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1848 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.
Original data:

Black, Susan Easton, compiler. Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1848. 50 vols. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center, 1989. Private Donor.

About Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1848

This database contains details extracted from membership records for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for the years 1830–1848. Details vary depending on circumstances in the member’s life, but they may include the following:

  • name
  • gender
  • father
  • mother
  • spouse
  • names of children
  • birth, marriage, and death dates
  • residences
  • burial location
  • church ordinances

Historical Background

Joseph Smith founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in New York in 1830. As membership grew, the main body of the church moved into Ohio, Missouri, and finally Illinois, where they established the city of Nauvoo and Joseph Smith was killed in 1844. In the face of growing persecution, church members began leaving Illinois in 1846 for unsettled lands in the American West.