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Pedigree Resource File™
More than 60 million names are now part of newer Pedigree Resource File (PRF) in electronic form in the computers at this Center. It's a database of compiled pedigrees submitted by users via FamilySearch.com or gathered from printed family histories. A successor to the Ancestral File, PRF indexes individual records with events, parents, locations, contains notes, source documentation and submitter contact information.
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Ancestral File™
Ancestral File™ contains a compilation of genealogies of
families from around the world and records that have been contributed
by thousands of people, including users of the Church's Family History
Library and Family History Centers. The information--mostly data about
people who have died--is linked into pedigrees to show both ancestors
and descendants of individuals. The file contains over 35 million names.
- Family History Library Catalog (FHLC)™
(FHLC).
The FHLC lists and describes the records available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, many of which are available at the Los Angeles Regional Family History Center. You can search the microfiche version by surname, locality, author, title, or subject. The computer version may be searched by locality, surname, or film numbers.
Most films and microfiche may be ordered to use here at the LARFHC.
The International Genealogical Index® (IGI)
The International Genealogical Index® (IGI) contains over 320
million records that list dates and places of birth, christenings, and
marriages for over 600 million deceased persons. It includes people who
lived any time after the early 1500s up through the early 1900s. These
names have been researched and extracted from thousands of original records.
Most of these records are compiled from public domain sources.
- Social Security Death Index
The SSD index consists of 49.3 million records of deaths reported to the Social Security Administration and have been made available through the Freedom of Information Act. Most of the deaths in this file date from 1962 to the present, however a few records are as early as 1937.
- Military Index
This index lists individuals in the United States military service who died or were declared dead in Korea or Vietnam (Southeast Asia) from 1950 to 1975.
- Scottish Church Records
This index lists nearly 10 million names primarily from the Church of Scotland (Presbyterian) parish registers and similar records.Records from a few other denominations are also included. The index contains entries dating from the late 1500s through 1854, with some entries as late as 1900. Information on the index includes given name(s), surname, parents or spouse,
gender, birth, christening or marriage date and place, and source information.This is also available on microfiche as the Old Parochial Registers (OPR) Index for Scotland.
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MICROFILM COLLECTION - the complete online inventory at the LARFHC
Use the Search Engine to determine if a microfilm is at the LARFHC.
CD COLLECTION - the complete online LARFHC inventory at the LARFHC
CD COLLECTION - A sampling
The CD collection is at the Sales Desk.
Generated by the LDS Church
Family History Source Guide
Ireland at Your Fingertips
LDS Emigrant Roster & Voyage History
Vital Records Index: Australia, British Isles, North American
1851 British Census: Devon, Norfolk & Warwick
1881 British Census: (Indexed, complete)
Generated by Family Tree Maker (FTM):
Census Index: Colonial America, 1607-1789
Census Index: Ontario, Canada 1871
Complete Book of Emigrants: 1607-1776
Index to Griffith's Valuation of Ireland: 1848-1864
Marriage bundle: (includes 38 states)
Military Records: U.S. Soldiers, 1784-1811
Ontario Register: 1780-1870's
Pennsylvania German Church Records: 1729-1870
Roll of Honor: Civil War Union Soldiers
State Index: Upstate New York, 1685-1910
Family Finder Index
Other CD's
American Concise Encyclopedia
Ani-Map Plus
Early American Gazetteer
Frith's Photographic Directory
Native American Collections
New England Historical Genealogical Register Vol. 1-148 (1847-1994)
Ontario Cemetery Finder Aid
Pennsylvania 1870 Census
SAR Revolutionary War Graves Register
Vital Information from the Guion Miller Roll
Acadian Genealogies: 14th to 19th century
Land Records: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida (2), Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Ohio, WIsconsin
Marriage Records: Early to 1850, Illinois and Indiana, Arkansas
Phone Disc USA: 1993 residential edition
Salt Lake City Cemetery Records: 1847-1992
1860 Census Index: Connecticut, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Washington D.C.
1870 Census Index: Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Georgia, Pennsylvania, North and South Carolina, New York City, Baltimore, Chicago, St. Louis
1880 Census Index: Ohio
U.S. CENSUS RECORDS:
- Information about U.S. Census records on microfilm for 1790-1840, and 1850-1920
. The 1890 was mostly destroyed.
- Printed book indexes for most early states from 1790 thru 1870, some missing
- 1900 and 1920 Soundex Index complete, 1910 available for some states
- Mortality schedules, 1850-1880
- See Soundex Coding System for how to utilize the index to the census after 1870
- Use A.I.S. (Accelerated Indexing System) microfiche searches for census records 1790-1850. (Note: With the national indexing by Ancestry.com -- available in the library -- and other commercial ventures, the A.I.S. has now lost meaningful use).
- 1880-1920 extant censuses on film, 1930 via Ancestry.com in the library.
- Film room has automated Soundex computer for easy use
FILMS STILL UNDER ORIGINAL "F" NUMBER:
See the complete LARFHC INVENTORY of the "F" films. Some films do not have a Salt Lake (SL) film # because they were filmed in Los Angeles or were acquired from archives or historical societies. These films are under old "F" numbers in special cabinets. Salt Lake does not have many of these films. See a list of these special "F"
films in a blue 3-ring notebook on the top of the Film Card Index cabinet.
GAZETTEER CARD FILE
Contains about 45,000 file cards containing hard-to-find places where the name may have changed or the place may no longer exist.
CHURCH of JESUS CHRIST of LATTER DAY-SAINTS RECORDS
The LDS Church census of members taken during the years 1914, 1920, 1925, 1930, 1935, 1940 are arranged in alphabetical order; LDS Church census for 1950, 1955, and 1960 combined in alphabetical order; 3-generation and 4-generation family group sheets are
arranged in alphabetical order by year in which they were filmed - Family Group Record Archives Collection 1942-1969. (Key: P365 = 3-generation filmed in 1965, P466 = 4-generation filmed in 1966, etc.)
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CARD FILE
The Map Area contains the Library of Congress Family History card file. While this Library does not have most of these books, you can obtain the exact title, author, publication date, publisher, etc. Older books, pre-1974, are listed in the Library of Congress genealogy books.
MAP AREA
In the Map Area there are many useful reference books, maps for various countries, some excellent card files, and microfiche. Of particular note are the laminated Ordinance Survey Landranger Maps of England & Wales which were purchased overseas.
MICROFICHE COLLECTION
Use the LARFHC Search Engine to determine if a microfiche is at the LARFHC.
Thousands of microfiche are located in Microfiche Cabinets. Some of the important holdings are:
- Sutro Library Catalog Family Registry & Index
- California Death Index
- New York Hist. Society Abstr. Wills, City of NY
- California Marriage Index
- Index to North Carolina Marriage Bonds: Cover period 1741-1868, and contain indexes to 170,000 N.C. Marriage Bonds. Granville County excluded from this collection.
- Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland
- Wisconsin Births Index
- Abstracts of Original Wills, St. David's Diocese
- Wisconsin Marriage Index Indexes to Wills
- Chicago/Cook Co. Illinois Death Index
- Scotland Old Parochial Registers (OPR)
- Index pre-1855
- Chicago/Cook Co. Illinois Birth Index
- 1910 Census Index to Streets in Major Cities
- Meyers Orts (German Gazetteer)
- 1891 Census England and Wales
- 1881 Census Indexes for England, Scotland & Wales
- National Inventory of Documentary Sources
- California Divorce Index
- Civil War Unit Histories
- Misc. Jewish collection
- Street Indexes for Census for England and Wales for 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881
- 1881 Census Index by surname for England
- 1891 English Census
- 1841-1891 Census Place list for England and Wales
- 1801 Census for Norway
- A.I.S.- Accelerated Indexing System (if you lose your ancestors in the census)
- Oregon Record of Marriages, Divorces, Deaths, 1961-1991
- DAR Lineage Books Index
- Dictionary of National Biography
- England and Wales Surveyors Drawing & Maps
- Family Registry
- British & Irish Rio's 1843-1930
- German Biography Archives
- Ireland Archives
- Indian Pioneer Papers
There are thousands of other microfiche available at the LARFHC. The microfiche are indexed by 6,xxx,xxx number in the Salt Lake Family History Library Catalog collection.
MILITARY RECORDS AND INDEXES
- General Index to Revolutionary War Service Records
- 800 rolls of Revolutionary War Pension files
- Index to War of 1812 Service records
- Index to War of 1812 pension files
- Index to Indian Wars Service Records
- Index to Indian Wars Pension files
- Index to Mexican War Service Records
- Index to Mexican War Pension files
- Index to Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers
- Index to Union Service Records, arranged by state
- Index to Old Wars Pension files
REFERENCE SECTION
A comprehensive and enviable collection including 75 "red 3-ring self-help notebooks" with various topics located to the left of the classroom entrance. Look at the LIST of notebooks.
U.S. PASSENGER LISTS
- New York Passenger Arrival Lists and Indexes:
The passenger lists are complete for 1820-1909. Indexes exist for the period 1820-1846, 1897-1902, and 1902-1943. Unfortunately, during the period 1847 through early 1897, there are no indexes for
New York.
- Baltimore
There are four other indexes of Baltimore. Many miscellaneous ports along the Atlantic seaboard, the Gulf Coast and the Great Lakes ports are indexed for various short periods in the Atlantic and
Gulf Coast Ports Index. The four major ports are Boston, Baltimore, New Orleans and Philadelphia. All indice to these ports are complete. The actual passenger lists are complete for Boston 1820-1891,
Baltimore 1820-1891, New Orleans 1820-1903, and Philadelphia 1800-1891.
- Hamburg Passenger Lists and Hamburg Indexes:
These passenger lists & indexes cover the period 1850 through 1934, with a gap in 1914 thru 1919. These indexes/lists usually provide the name of the village from which the passenger had come
before leaving Hamburg. You need to start your search in the indexes by checking the time period when the person left the port of Hamburg, Germany.
For a complete explanation of the LARFHC passenger list records available, see U.S.
Passenger Lists, U.S.
Passenger Lists books and New York Passenger Lists Records.
These are the largest collection of passenger lists in the Western United States (outside of Salt Lake City).
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MAIN BRITISH ISLE COLLECTIONS
Note: The British Isles Family History Society - U.S.A. has generously donated much of our book and film collections, some of which are not available
anywhere else in the country.
ENGLAND & WALES
Civil Registration indexes for births, marriages and deaths.These indexes formerly called Somerset House indexes or St. Catherine's House indexes, are now officially called the General Registration
Office Indexes and are on microfiche from 1837 to 1983.
CENSUS RECORDS FOR ENGLAND, WALES, SCOTLAND AND IRELAND
There is a Register Book of Canada Census films. These are arranged by each census year. 1831-1891 census for England, Wales, Scotland as well as part of Ireland. 1881 indexed on microfiche and
CD.
BRITISH FILM AREA
This area contains films (other than census) for England, Wales, Scotland, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.Does not include Ireland which is in the Ireland film area.
IRELAND
Civil Registration Indexes for births, marriages and deaths for Ireland cover 1864 thru 1921 (non-Catholic marriages from 1845). Actual records 1864-1870. Protestant marriage indexes and records
1845-1863.
IRELAND CENSUS SUBSTITUTES
Householders Index, Griffith's Valuation Lists and Tithe Applotments (census substitutes). Tithes cover about 1823-38 and Griffiths about 1848-64.
IRELAND - GENEALOGICAL MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTION
Complete on 149 rolls of film under Salt Lake film #100,103 - #100,250, indexed in Virginia McAnlis, The Consolidated Index to the Records of the Genealogical Office Dublin,
Ireland.
IRELAND - SURNAME INDEX TO REGISTRY OF DEEDS
Covers period 1708-1904. Deeds of Ireland, 1708-1832, on film, complete set.
SCOTLAND - CIVIL REGISTRATION INDEXES FOR BIRTHS, MARRIAGES & DEATHS
(1855-1949)
The Church of Scotland (Presbyterian) records are indexed for christenings and marriages to 1855 in the Old Parochial index (OPR Index) on microfiche.
SCOTLAND
Scottish Testaments 1544 to 1823 (all courts.
WELSH GENEALOGIES
Covers period 300 AD to 1400 AD for Wales.
PROBATE CALENDARS
Ireland: Probate Calendar 1858 to 1917. England and Wales: Probate Calendar 1858 to 1901.
For a more complete description of the British Isles Collection in the Los Angeles
Regional Family History Center, see the Guide to British Isles Research. The guide contains all of the major British and Irish holdings at the
LARFHC. It has taken years to compile.
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U.S. COLLECTIONS
ALABAMA
Gandrud collection: 245 volumes of Alabama records.
ARKANSAS
Arkansas 1850 Census Every-name Index
CALIFORNIA STATE-WIDE DEATH INDEX AND MARRIAGES INDEX
- Collection of marriages 1960-1981
- Deaths 1905-1994 (fiilm and fiche) 1930-1930 in FHC office
- Los Angeles marriages 1921-
CALIFORNIA - SUTRO LIBRARY CATALOG
On microfiche with annual supplements, covering the genealogical holdings of the Sutro Library in San Francisco. Important because their genealogical materials and directories are available through
public libraries on interlibrary loan.
CONNECTICUT
Vital records index, Barbour Collection SL #2,887 thru 2,967 US film area
ILLINOIS
Early Name Index 1810-1855, State and Federal Censuses. SL #1,001,592 thru 1,001,801.
ILLINOIS - CHICAGO (COOK CO.) BIRTH, MARRIAGE AND DEATH INDEXES
Records cover 1871-1915 for births to 1916 for Marriages, and 1871-1933 for deaths. Some indexes on microfiche under 6,016,532 & 33.
KENTUCKY
Vital Records Index, Barton Collection SL #341,195 thru 358,491.
NEW YORK CITY
- Birth Indexes: SL #1,315,311-320 & 1,322,457-86
- Death Indexes: 1,324,912-31
NEW YORK
Vosburg Collection of Church Records: About 90 film rolls of various church records for the State of New York.
NORTH CAROLINA
The Colonial Records of North Carolina series.
McCubbin Collection
This collection consists of source material, genealogies, local histories, and vital records for mainly Rowan County, North
Carolina. However, many other North Carolina counties are mentioned as well as some other states. Handwritten and typewritten. 76 films
RHODE ISLAND
Vital Records SL #22,431-472 & SL #22,293-22,317
VERMONT
Vital Records SL #27,455 thru SL #27,741
WEST VIRGINIA
Some holdings include 50 volumes of West Virginia Encyclopedia and supplements.
WISCONSIN
Birth, Death indexes of various dates.
OTHER - NATIVE AMERICAN
Index to Guion Miller (Eastern Cherokee) rolls in book form and on CD-ROM.
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OTHER FILMS
Films for Germany, Poland, and all of Europe.
SCANDINAVIAN FILM AREA
Films for Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, plus Faroe Islands, Greenland and Iceland.
CENSUS RECORDS FOR CANADA
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LARFHC Holdings and Collections