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From: p shippey< >
Subject: Re: [HANDCART-L] Pioneer Heritage CD-ROM Handcart List Errors
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 09:48:48 -0600

Lynda, I would like a copy of your list. It did not come to my Juno
address, it won't take attachments. If you could please send it to
<> Thank you so much.
Peggy
On Tue, 26 May 1998 18:34:34 -0400 writes:
>Please be advised that the lists of handcart companies on the Pioneer
>Heritage
>CD-ROM have many errors. The lists are published in the DUP series.
>Many
>descendants "added" their ancestors to the list who DID NOT belong
>there. For
>example, the list for the 9th HC Company lists Isaac C. Morris and
>Sarah
>Henderson, his wife. He emigrated in 1853 and she did in 1852. They
>had a son
>who married a daughter of Daniel Robison, captain of the 9th HC
>company. I've
>done extensive research on this company if anyone else wants a copy of
>my list.
>
>The most reliable starting point are the lists published in the back
>of
>"Handcarts to Zion" by Leroy & Ann Hafen. This is available in
>paperback at the
>Church Museum of History & Art in SLC and at Deseret Book stores.
>This lists
>came from the official lists turned in by HC company captains and are
>part of
>the Journal History of the church. While some of the company lists
>are sketchy
>(I think the 6th has only a handful of names), I don't believe there
>are any
>people ON these lists who don't belong there. They should be used as
>a starting
>point for research. If you have ancestors NOT on these lists who ARE
>on the DUP
>list, I would not accept that as a fact without thorough research.
>I've come
>across various biographical/autobiographical sketches for one woman on
>the DUP
>list for the 9th HC company, and sometimes it says she came in 1860
>with "a
>handcart company" and in other places they came with a wagon company.
>I think
>it was the latter.
>
>As a further note, there are MANY errors in Pioneers and Prominent Men
>of Utah.
>I was advised early on in my research that this is not a very reliable
>source.
>For instance, according to PPMU, one of Daniel Robison's brothers came
>with the
>10th HC company, although he is on the official list for the 9th! In
>fact,
>Daniel's parents and all of his brothers and sisters and their
>families (with
>one exception), emigrated with the 9th. The exception was a sister
>whose
>husband could afford a wagon, but they all came out from Pennsylvania
>to
>Florence together.
>
>Lyndia Carter of Springville, Utah is in the process of publishing her
>book on
>the Willie & Martin handcart companies. I haven't talked to her in a
>while, so
>I don't know where or when it will be published, but I expect it will
>be
>available in SLC area bookstores when it is. [I won't put her address
>and phone
>number here without asking her for permission first.]
>
>My annotated list of the 9th company is attached as a word file.
>
>

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