Source Abbreviations
- AF
- Ancestral File (TM) (CD-ROM), version 4.18
- BIB
- Bibliography
- BMR
- British Mission Emigration Register
- CA
- Church Almanac 1997–98, Deseret News
- CC
- Church Chronology, compiled by Andrew Jenson, Assistant Church Historian, Second Edition, Deseret News Company, Salt Lake City, 1899
- CHL
- Church History Library, LDS Church, 15 East North Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah.
- Cont.
- The Contributor, Junius F. Wells, ed., volumes 12-14 (1891-93), which contain articles on LDS Church immigration by Andrew Jenson, former Assistant Church Historian, Deseret News Company
- Der Stern
- Entries of Genealogical Value published in Der Stern, 1869-1901, vols. 1-33 by Johanna Palmer and Fern H. Warren (193 leaves). Der Stern was later known as Liahona (German).
- Customs
- U.S. Customs Lists
- EECI
- European Emigration Card Index
- FHL
- Family History Library (formerly Genealogical Library), LDS Church, Salt Lake City, Utah
- HC
- History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Roberts, B. H., ed., 2nd ed. rev., 7 volumes. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1972) (HDL)
- HR
- Hamburg Register
- HSM
- History of the Scandinavian Mission, by Andrew Jenson, Assistant Church Historian, Deseret News Press, Salt Lake City, 1927
- JH
- Journal History Manuscript (HDL)
- MNAL
- Marjorie Newton, List of Nineteenth-Century Latter-day Saints Who Left Australia for Utah
- MNNZL
- Marjorie Newton, List of Nineteenth-Century Latter-day Saints Who Left New Zealand for Utah
- MS
- The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star. (The Millennial Star was the official publication of the Church in the British Isles from 1840-1940)
- NSHP
- Nauvoo Social History Project, manuscript of passenger ship lists 1840–1860, by James Smith
- SGMR
- Swiss and German Mission Emigration Register
- SMR
- Scandinavian Mission Emigration Register
- WWSR
- World-Wide LDS Ship Register, by Margery Taylor, Family History Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1991