{"id":10820,"date":"2025-07-20T22:49:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T22:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/?p=10820"},"modified":"2025-07-20T22:49:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T22:49:23","slug":"pioneer-day-and-the-family-history-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/pioneer-day-and-the-family-history-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Pioneer Day and The Family History Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thursday, July 24 marks the 178th anniversary of the Mormon pioneers arriving in the Salt Lake valley. There will be many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/artsliving\/2025\/07\/18\/pioneer-day-2025-parades-fireworks\/\">celebrations throughout the state of Utah<\/a> and other locations to commemorate this event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are interested in researching Mormon pioneer ancestors, The Family History Guide can help. Check out Goal F1 in the United States page. Choice B has links to some great articles and videos for getting started with Latter-day Saint research, including the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y2zXri8LKCo%20target=\">How Do I Find LDS Church Records?<\/a> BYUFamily History Library video<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/en\/wiki\/LDS_Church_Records_Class_Handout\">LDS Church Records Class Handout<\/a>, FamilySearch Wiki article<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/en\/wiki\/Latter-day_Saint_Record_Finder\">Latter-day Saint Record Finder<\/a>, FamilySearch Wiki article<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/familysearch.org\/campaign\/pioneers#\/\">FamilySearch Pioneers<\/a> website<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlylds.com\/\">Early LDS<\/a> pioneer database<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mormonmigration.lib.byu.edu\/\">Mormon Migration<\/a> website<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mormon Migration <a href=\"http:\/\/familysearch.org\/search\/collection\/2365248\">online records, 1840-1932<\/a>, FamilySearch collection<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>See also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/project-9-us-utah02.html\">Goal 2: Archives and Libraries<\/a> in the Utah pages of The Family History Guide, for a variety of historical articles, databases, and record collections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"566\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-3.png 960w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-3-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-3-768x453.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, July 24 marks the 178th anniversary of the Mormon pioneers arriving in the Salt Lake valley. There will be many celebrations throughout the state of Utah and other locations to commemorate this event. If you are interested in researching Mormon pioneer ancestors, The Family History Guide can help. Check out Goal F1 in the United States page. 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