The Church Archives are in the Church Office Building off Temple Square. It is behind the Joseph Smith Building (old Hotel Utah). I THINK the hours are 8:30 - 4:30 M-F. I know for sure they close at 4:30, and pretty sure they open at 8:30. Definitely NOT open evenings and weekends. The church history library is on the first floor right as you enter from the plaza. The archives are on the second floor. I'll summarize some of the resources I've used at the archives below, but my experience consists of a few days worth, scattered over three visits on trips to Utah. The archives does have a computerized catalog, available ONLY at the archives. HOWEVER, this does not include every item. You can search by subject, author, surname, etc., but you don't always find something you know to be there. Most of the computerized catalog is on microfilm. There is a separate index on microfiche for ward and branch records. You look up the name of the ward/branch, then get a number which refers to a series. Then you need to ask what records are available for that ward/branch (relief society, priesthood quorums, etc.). There also is a missionary index to find information on the dates and place of service of missionaries, going way back. This is on both film and fiche. When you go to the archives, you need to have a clear idea of what you are looking for. You definitely need to know to ask the right question. The staff are very helpful, but if your don't find something, you should ask if there are records not in the catalog in your area of search. You might call first to ask about records and sources. Well worth the cost of a long-distance phone call. Good luck. ____________________Reply Separator____________________ Subject: [HANDCART-L] Re: HANDCART-D Digest V98 #104 Author: Cballd@aol.com Date: 6/11/98 7:49 PM Could someone please tell me about the church archives. A lot of my Great grandfather's papers were donated there years ago. Would I be able to access these? Where are the archives? What hours? What's available? etc. etc. I hope to get down there again this summer. I spent a full hour at the FHL last month while my daughter-in-law walked around temple square, then we got back in the car and continued toward home (Seattle.) Thanks for your help, Cindy Alldredge Received: from valhalla.tmac.com (192.206.250.2) by ccmail.tmac.com with SMTP (IMA Internet Exchange 2.12 Enterprise) id 000099BF; Thu, 11 Jun 98 19:52:36 -0400 Received: from fp-1.rootsweb.com (fp-1.rootsweb.com [207.113.233.233]) by valhalla.tmac.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA21707 for <Durfee_Lynda@tmac.com>; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 19:59:37 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by fp-1.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA17578; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 16:55:41 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 16:55:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Cballd@aol.com Message-ID: <84b46864.35806d0c@aol.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 19:49:31 EDT Old-To: HANDCART-L@rootsweb.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 sub 52 Subject: [HANDCART-L] Re: HANDCART-D Digest V98 #104 Resent-Message-ID: <"1DeECD.A.CJE.n5Gg1"@fp-1.rootsweb.com> To: HANDCART-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: HANDCART-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <HANDCART-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/741 X-Loop: HANDCART-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: HANDCART-L-request@rootsweb.com