Salt Lake City 2015 | Research Trip Journal | Day 5

For those of you who have never been to Salt Lake city, this is the library seen from my room. Nope! Cannot be closer than that!

For those of you who have never been to Salt Lake City, this is the library seen from my hotel room. Nope! Cannot be closer than that!

The time I spent at the library yesterday is quite easy to breakdown.

Most of the day was spent working on the Bangle Family. I wanted to see if I could find some new documents and I did! I am very excited about this as I now have the signature of Adam Bangle.

Afterwards, I resumed the work on the California quest for my French friend Guillaume. He’s quite lucky, I am finding him a lot of stuff (I’m even jealous…).

This morning we had a lecture on researching in New York State which I must say was quite interesting and really useful. I even learned that on the 1855 and 1865 State Census you can find at the end of the entries for each town a list of the people who got married or passed away during that year. I will have to take a look at this for the ones listed in Clinton and Franklin Counties in 1865.

Tomorrow I’ll be spending the day on Floor B1 — International Films and Books — as I want to find Hubous that lived in Calvados in the 17th and 18th century near the town where my ancestor Mathieu Hubou was baptized. I was lucky enough that a French genealogist — Jean-Marc — helped me with an index he has access to so I should be able to scan a lot of church records.

Tomorrow is also the mid-week lunch group so expect to see photos of the wonderful views we have from the last floor of the Joseph Smith Building (which used to be a hotel decades ago).


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