1. 1. Your Pioneer Ancestors Data Bases:Were They There?&Roots Magics Feature for TransferringYour Notes to Family Tree
2. 2. Web Site URL history.lds.org/overlandtravels/
3. 3. Detail of how to usethis database.
4. 4. Detail--Explanation of the Purpose of theDatabase and How To Add Corrections
5. 5. Detail - Entering Name of Ancestorto Search the Site For
6. 6. John Henry Standifird Found--Click on Person Button
7. 7. His Home PageSee Page Details
8. 8. The Company He Traveled In
9. 9. Pioneer and Later Sources Regarding this Ancestor.Included will be a short sketch under Tail Excerpts
10. 10. Readable Detail of Above Trail ExcerptIn March 1857 I started overland to Missouri. Fell incompany with some Latter Day Saints who wereemegrating to Utah. I investigated their Doctrines andwas Baptised by William C[restfield]. Moody about 20miles West or Southwest of Independence, confirmedby Homer Duncan.The next day started with the Saints for Utah where Iarrived 9, September 1857.
11. 11. The Church has created a sister site toMormon Pioneer Overland Travel whichmight be called Pioneer Ancestors In YourFamily Tree. It makes the following statementabout this website.
12. 12. This is FamilySearch's attempt at comparing the listof people in the pioneer companies to the peoplelisted in your family tree. As yet it is not quitecomprehensive or completely accurate historically.As with the Pioneer Overland website, it invitespeople to make corrections as they can, but unlikethat website, you must sign in to see this website.
13. 13. Website URL familysearch.org/campaign/pioneers#/Your Pioneer Ancestors Home Page
14. 14. Pioneer Ancestors Home Page Sign In Detail
15. 15. After you sign in,the same pagecomes up with alist of yourancestors whocame across theplains between1847 and 1869.The list is dividedinto 4 columns andis alphabetized byfirst name.
16. 16. Clicking on a name in the left column will take you to that personin Family Tree.
17. 17. Clicking on Person takes you herdetails in Family Tree
18. 18. Clicking on a name in the 2nd column will take you to ahistorical sketch of the company that person came across theplains in.
19. 19. Information Page
20. 20. Detail of CompanyInformation pageshowing departure andarrival dates, membersof the company, andsources of informationabout the company,including TrailExcerpts
21. 21. Clicking on a name in the 3rd column will takeyou to that persons Information Page
22. 22. Trail Excerpt from source onher Information PageReadable Trail Excerpt
23. 23. President Young said I must go: that I must do what I could,and he would assist me. When I had decided to go, and askedstrength and courage of the Lord, means came flowing intomy hands. Things I had thought of no value, that I shouldthrow away were sold for a fair price, to those who were notof our faith, or who were not prepared to go at that time. ThePresident ordered my wagon made ready, a thousand poundsof flour was allotted me: a yoke of oxen in addition to what Iowned: a man hired to drive my team. Fifty dollars worth ofstore goods was appropriated to clothe myself and children.This with what I obtained by my own economy made me verycomfortable. I began to feel myself quite an importantpersonage! [However,] it was hard for me to move the dreadof, (as I felt,) a never ending journey!
24. 24. I started on the dreaded journey with a saddened heart,affecting to be cheerfull as far as possible!. . . We wereorganized in President Youngs fifty wagons, with Captains oftens; a head commander over all. Six hundred wagons in thewhole company: travelling three abreast. as we made ourown road, we could as easily make a wide one. We camped atElkhorn river more than two weeks, waiting for others to joinus. . . . While we lay encamped a sister by the name of Taylordied with the measles. It was a sorrowful affair! She left ahusband and four children to bewail her loss! To make a lonegrave by the way side at the beginning of our journey, causedour hearts to flow out with sympathy for the poor young girls,left to pursue the wearisome route over the deserts without amother!
25. 25. The company were generally healthy: even those who startedon beds, were soon able to enjoy the amusements accessibleto all such as climbing mountains and picking wild fruit. Thegloom on my mind wore gradually away. When I had beenthree weeks on the way there was not a more mirthfulwoman in the whole company. The grandeur of nature filledme with grateful aspirations. The beautiful camping grounds,which were so clean, that one was led to conclude no humanfoot had ever trodden there! So green was the grass, sodelightful the wild flowers, so umbrageous the grounds onthe banks of the rivers!
26. 26. Eliza R. Snow, who crossed the plains in the summer of 1847,notes in her diary how singing hymns around a blazingcampfire in such beautiful surroundings lifted the peopleshearts to a contemplation of the sublime.Had it not been for the rich seasons of refreshing from abovewhich we experienced from time to time, with renewinginfluence, it really seemed as though many must have yieldedbeneath the weight of fatigue and exposure, who were thusenabled to struggle through.
27. 27. Adding Your Notes In Roots MagicDirectly to Family Tree
28. 28. Roots Magic Home Page
29. 29. Roots Magic Edit Person Page--Click on NoteButton, Lower Right, to Bring up Note
30. 30. Example of A Person General Note
31. 31. Example of a Person Note with a URL
32. 32. Click on Temple Icon to Bring Up Page thatCommunicates With Family Tree.Click on the Green Note Button
33. 33. All Notes You Have On That Person Will Come Up. Each Note MustBe Entered in Family Tree Separately. Click the Box
34. 34. The Note Transfer Box Comes Up. Click On theAttach To Person Box (Lower Left)
35. 35. Click on Add note to Family Search
36. 36. As Notes Are Added They Show Up On theFamily Search Part of the Page
37. 37. This is how they willbe noted in your familytree page
38. 38. This is how notes will appear inyour Family Tree Page