Then What? Part One Locating Information at International Daughters of Utah Pioneers & online

Four Page D.U.P. Membership Application of Anne Evans Brown

You have checked the index at International Daughters of Utah Pioneers website to see if they have a history of your pioneer ancestor.

Then what?

In a series of blog posts to come additional research tips on various topics and locations of records will be presented.  These additional sources will help to verify the histories you find. It is important to put an ancestor into social context to find the full story or at least add significantly to it.

Step One International Daughters of Utah Pioneers Website

The theme of Daughters of Utah Pioneers is “Preserving the Past – Looking to the Future.” Multiple satellite museums dot the west with artifacts from the pioneer time period. In addition to artifacts - pioneer histories are preserved. Checking the International Daughters of Utah Pioneers site history index will indicate if they have a history of the desired pioneer and can be ordered from the International Daughters of Utah Pioneers history department located in Salt Lake City. Not only that, the history department also has the original applications of all the ladies who joined the society. This is a separate collection to search. Between the histories available on pioneers and applications of their descendant daughters - this is a great beginning point. Even with International Daughters of Utah Pioneer large collections there are still pioneers that haven’t been written about and histories that can be made over to be spectacular.

Step Two Locating photos, histories, stories, and documents online

It is always a good idea to check with relatives to find photos, artifacts, and family documents on pioneers. Also checking online trees like those found at Ancestry.com, MyHeritage, and FamilySearch can provide a rich field of documents and sources. 

Case Study for locating information at International Daughters of Utah Pioneers

Anne Evans Brown came from Wales to Utah as a child with her parents Joseph Howell Evans and Ruth Evan Evans during the pioneer time period. Although a pioneer herself, she became a member of The Daughters of Utah Pioneers. On file in the membership department is her four page application. She lists her parents names, date of birth, place of birth, a full page of biography, names of her children, her residence, her husband's pioneers.  In the history department there is a history on her father but not on her mother. Anne has several histories, each slightly different. Don't forget to check their photo department.

Case Study for a couple online tree sites

FamilySearch contains two photos of Joseph Howell Evans and eight sources with one photo of Ruth Evans plus 3 sources. There is one photo on Anne Evans Brown with her husband and children and four sources. Ancestry.com provides in the public tree section a photos of all the above and five sources. However, proceed with caution. Sources are not checked by either company. As with any online tree - verify the information. However, the information here is a great boost to the research on these individuals.