Info

• URL: https://mormonbattalion.kindex.org
• Archive Owner: Laura Anderson
• Total Records: 5339
• Indexed: 21%
• Accessibility: Public
• Source: Records gathered by Laura Anderson from Church History Library Catalog and other sources where record copyright is permissable.

Scope and Content

Collected historical records relating to the men, women, and children connected with the Mormon Battalion.

Utah, Wyoming, Missouri, Nevada, California

Notable records

• Camp Creek Branch records
• 1855 Reunion records
• Pottawattamie Conference records
• Winter Quarters church records
• Winter Quarters High Council records

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• URL: https://smith-clark.kindex.org
• Archive Owner: Cathy Gilmore
• Total Records: 1573
• Indexed: 24%
• Accessibility: Public
• Source: Records gathered, scanned, and added collaboratively by descendants of Dorothy Smith and Ellsworth Clark.

Scope and Content

Contains letters, photos, documents, diaries, personal writings, verse, and art created by Dorothy Smith and Ellsworth Clark between 1916 and 2008. Also includes additional photos and documents created by associated family and friends related to Dorothy and Ellsworth, including letters, documents and photos dating from the late 19th-century.

Salt Lake City, Utah; Lethbridge, Alberta; Snowflake Arizona; Southern/Eastern Idaho (Paris, Georgetown, Montpelier, Victor, St. Anthony, Parker)

Notable records

• Diaries and letters containing LDS Church History in Lethbridge, Alberta from 1915-1930
• Close associations with LDS artist Torleif Knaphus and Mormon leaders including Hugh B. Brown
• Caretaking of the Cumorah Farm in Palmyra from 1934 to 1939 and early records of Cumorah Pageant
• Religious and social history in Salt Lake City from 1929 to 1940
• Book of Remembrance containing LDS religious history between 1920 and 1940
• Letters from Emma Larsen Smith, 5th wife of Jesse N. Smith

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• URL: https://kroff.kindex.org
• Archive Owner: Joel Kroff
• Total Records: 1349
• Indexed: 4%
• Accessibility: Public
• Source: Records gathered, scanned, and added collaboratively by descendants of Eugene and Edith Kroff.

Scope and Content

Contains letters, photos, documents, diaries, personal writings, authored by the Eugene Kroff and Edith Clegg family.

Tooele, Utah. Verl Kroff notebooks include hunting and fishing locations throughout Utah and Idaho, including Willard Bay, Great Salt Lake, Apex Mine, Lower Bounds Lake, Bear River, the Uintahs, Strawberry Reservoir, and many others.

Notable records

• Collection of 33 notebooks authored by Verl Kroff dating from 1941 to 1994. Records include notes from geese hunting and fishing trips in Utah and Idaho. Notebooks follow a unique pattern of numbered notes from 1 to 100, and include advice, lists, and miscellaneous notes about hunting and fishing.
• Gene Kroff Autobiography
• James Jay LeFevre interview from 1973

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• URL: https://whittlesey.kindex.org
• Archive Owner: Elizabeth Whittlesey
• Total Records: 247
• Indexed: 4%
• Accessibility: Public
• Source: Records contributed by Willis Whittlesey III. Scanned by Kindex.

Scope and Content

Collected Whittlesey family records including documents, letters, postcards, photos, headstone images, genealogy information, and other records. Surnames of interest include Whittlesey, Craven, Averill, and Browne. Earliest letters date from 1860, and continue to the mid-20th century.

Locations

Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, Salt Lake City

Notable records

• Civil War Era letters and documents
• Collected family letters from Averill, Whittlesey, Alfred Craven, and Samuel Averill Johnson

Info

• URL: https://stanandnormajones.kindex.org
• Archive Owner: Jeff Jones
• Total Records: 7160
• Indexed: 1%
• Accessibility: Private
• Source: Records gathered by children of Stanley D. Jones and Norma Laxman. Digitized by Kindex.

Scope and Content

Collected family records of Stan and Norma Jones family, their descendants, and the ancestral families of Hinckley, Laxman, Jones, Porter, and Johnson. Records include photos, letters, journals, diaries, and memorabilia from late 19th century to present.

Locations

Salt Lake City, Bountiful, Coalville, Nauvoo, Tooele, Alpine

Subjects

Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, Days of 47 Youth Parade, Cove Fort, Bryant S. Hinckley family, Liberty Stake, Carl Laxman family

Notable records

• Collected letters, photos, and documents of Bryant S. Hinckley
• Alma Laxman Diaries
• Histories of Joseph Porter Jones ancestors

Info

• URL: https://deschamps-doyle.kindex.org
• Archive Owner: Mary Kaye Doyle
• Total Records: 15477
• Indexed: 1%
• Accessibility: Private
• Source: Records compiled by Mary Kaye Doyle and digitized by Kindex.

Scope and Content

Between 1960 and 2016, Mary Kaye Doyle compiled 73 scrapbooks containing 15,477 pages. Scrapbook content covers every year of her life from 1941 to 2016, and includes photos, letters, memorabilia, news clippings, and ephemera.

Sandy, Utah; France, Austria, California, Geneva, Switzerland, Germany

Notable records

Viewed in their entirely, Mary Kaye’s scrapbooks are a unique and comprehensive snapshot of Mormon family life and experiences.

• Letters, memorabilia, and photos from the LDS France East Mission from 1961 to 1963.
• Collected LDS-related ephemera, certificates, and records from Mormon Young Womens and MIA program from 1950’s.

Info

• URL: https://ezratclark.kindex.org/
• Archive Owner: David S. Clark
• Total Records: 638
• Indexed: 12%
• Accessibility: Private
• Source: Records compiled by descendants of Ezra T. Clark and the Ezra T. Clark family organization.

Scope and Content

Archive contains photos, letters, and other family records belonging to Ezra T. Clark, his wives Mary Stevenson, Susan Leggett, and Nancy A. Porter. Archive also contains some records related to Timothy Baldwin Clark.

Utah; Southern States, Drytown, California

Notable records

• Collected missionary letters from Charles Rich Clark during his LDS Southern States Mission in 1890s
• Charles Rich Clark Journals
• Collected Ezra T. Clark letters belonging to Ruth Bentley. Letters span 1870s to 1890s.
• Ella Shepherd Clark Book of Remembrance
• Heber D. Clark Postcard collection

Info

• URL: https://sampson.kindex.org/
• Archive Owner: Mark Sampson
• Total Records: 2204
• Indexed: 15%
• Accessibility: Private
• Source: Records compiled by descendants of Alonzo Sampson and Mary Alice Allred. Digitized by Kindex and Sampson families.  

Scope and Content

Archive contains photos, letters, and other family records belonging Alonzo Sampson and Mary Alice Allred and their childrens’ families. Children: Darvel, David, Arden, Zelda, Blaine, Floyd, Hazel, Clinton, Rose Ann, Cecil, Merna.

Delta, Utah

Notable records

• Arden Sampson collected letters
• Pete Stewart and Hazel Sampson Journals
• Collected Ezra T. Clark letters belonging to Ruth Bentley. Letters span 1870s to 1890s.
• Ella Shepherd Clark Book of Remembrance
• Heber D. Clark Postcard collection

Info

• URL: https://found.kindex.org
• Archive Owner: Cathy Gilmore
• Total Records: 1170
• Indexed: 9%
• Accessibility: Public
• Source: Records donated and contributed by multiple sources included Cobwebs Antiques of Salt Lake City, Utah, private collectors, and multiple Kindex users. 

Scope and Content

The archive is open to anyone to contribute unlimited records for the purposes of discovering “orphan” records (i.e., records with names no longer belonging to their original families).

Salt Lake City, Moroni, Knoxville, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming

Notable records

• Olson family postcard collection (Moroni, Utah)
• 350+ Postcards of Knoxville, Tennessee contributed by Michael Honeycutt
• Galer Family Bible
• Gray, Pearce, and Holmes family album
• Heber D. Clark Postcard collection

Info

• URL: https://hyrumsmith.kindex.org
• Archive Owner: David S. Clark
• Total Records: 323
• Indexed: 3%
• Accessibility: Public
• Source: Records compiled by descendants of Hyrum and June Bushman Smith. Hyrum Smith diaries contributed by David S. Clark. 

Scope and Content

Collected photos, letters, documents, and other family records of the Hyrum and June Bushman Smith and their descendants.

Lethbridge, Alberta; Salt Lake City, Provo, Bountiful, Utah; Palmyra, New York; Snowflake, Arizona

Notable records

• Hyrum Smith Collected Diaries, 1918-1960
• June B. Smith Harker Book of Remembrance

Info

• URL: https://totter.kindex.org
• Archive Owner: Lorena Barfuss
• Total Records: 1240
• Indexed: 24%
• Accessibility: Private
• Source: Records compiled by Lorena Barfuss and digitized by Kindex.

Scope and Content

Collected photos, letters, documents, and other family records of the John Totter family and his descendants.

Poland, Minnesota, Utah

Notable records

• Collected letters from John Totter and descendants, including Agnes, Alice, Gladys, Irene, Jacob, James, John, Joze, and Louise. Many letters written in Polish.
• Collected photos from John Totter and descendants.

Info

• URL: https://fbwadsworthfamily.kindex.org
• Archive Owner: Anna Drishinski
• Total Records: 252
• Indexed: 87%
• Accessibility: Public
• Source: Records compiled by the Drishinski family

Scope and Content

Wadsworth family letters and documents, including F.B. Wadsworth, F. Don Wadsworth, Sylvia Wadsworth

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