LDS Research

"Today's Fundamentalist Mormons in the American West resist assimilation like their forefathers. Centered on faith, they survive despite efforts to permanently end their cherished plural family arrangements. While some Fundamentalists like Warren Jeffs go rogue and corrupt their beliefs in heinous crimes, most hold steadfastly to a religion they say is biblical and restored by the first Latter-day Saint prophet, Joseph Smith, in the early 1800s. Mormon...

History of the land where the Bountiful Utah Temple was built and it's owners from 1897 until The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bought the land in 1988. The first owner was John Haven Barlow (1848-1922), son of Israel Barlow (1806-1883) and Elizabeth Haven. The land was also owned by the Stringham, Gierisch, Barber and Tolman families.

Consists of numbered pedigree charts and family group records, ca.1000- 1939, with many temple ordinances, 1842-1971, for a few immediate descendants and many ancestors (in the United States, England and Europe) of Brigham Young (1801-1877), the "2nd Prophet, Seer & Revelator of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." Most pedigree charts are in chronological order; family group records are in alphabetical order.

Includes photographs and biographical sketches of participants, as well as a day-by-day account of interesting experiences which occurred during the centennial trek.