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Show of active members (those in good standing) deceased since 1941; (3) Records of Mormon emigrants that cleared through the Liverpool office for an ocean crossing, indexed by heads of families; (4) The day by day Journal History of the Church; (5) Membership records accessible through a name index; (6) Missionary Records, indexed by names of those sent on full-time missions; (7) Obituaries from the Deseret News and Salt Lake Tribune; (8) Patriarchal Blessings, and Genealogical data contained therein; (9) Index to a r t i c l e s from some periodicals; (10) Pioneers who crossed the plains, indexed by heads of families; and (11) Index to some manuscript stake and mission h i s t o r i e s . A published work that makes some of the kind of information contained in these card indexes available to persons that may not be able to come to the Church library-archives in Salt Lake City is Andrew Jenson's Encyclopedic History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1941). It includes historical sketches of branches, missions, conferences or d i s t r i c t s of missions, wards, stakes, temples, Church educational i n s t i t u t i o n s , historic buildings, h i s t o r i c places, organizations such as the Mormon Battalion, works peculiar to Mormonism such as the Deseret Alphabet, the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price, discontinued and continuing church periodicals, etc. The work does not include biographical information for this is contained in Jenson's 4 vol. Biographical Encyclopedia. Of course the ultimate biographical encyclopedia for Mormons and their ancestors, presented when possible in family groups, is v |