The Battalion Documents have been found, digitized and partially transcribed. But now what? 17,000 archival boxes full of documents! How can we help Laura create order out of chaos? How can people be able to search with one click to pull up all the pages that have your ancestor or a certain place mentioned?

Laura explains the process and benefits but also sends out a plea for help.

Contact Laura if you'd like to help participate the discovery and research process by helping transcribe or review future transcriptions. email: [email protected]

To view the battalion documents that are currently on Kindex visit https://app.kindex.org/ and explore their archives. You may request access through the website.

Real historians rely on primary documents to explain

If you’d like to get access to the records that are posted on Kindex by the Mormon Battalion Association currently, contact Laura Anderson at [email protected]

Or, visit the Nauvoo Community Project https://nauvoo.byu.edu/

Have you ever wondered what it's like to visit the national archives? In this segment, Laura walks us through the process, procedures, and guidelines that are constructed to safeguard documents.

Next, she describes how she actually found the battalion records that have been so integral to acurately identifying who was in the group, and the historical background of previous efforts to locate the records.

She references Kristine Forbes' video detailing the incredible work the team did compiling and comparing the multiple lists from various roster and sources. Here is the link https://kristine.forbes.presentations.mormonbattalion.com/

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Meet Laura Anderson - document-finding super sleuth --whose persistence and expertise have helped discover thought-to-be-lost original

We learn how Laura began her interest in primary documents, the experience she gained to help make

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After our last episode about music of the Battalion, we are happy to have Miriam Andrus share the story of her ancestor, George Washington Taggart. He was a gifted musician in the Battalion and the blessing of music has continued on through his descendants even today.

The photo used for this episode is a picture of one of the instruments that belonged to GW Taggart housed in the Mormon Battalion Historic site in San Diego, California.

What music did the Battalion sing, hear, use? A conversation with Margaret Larson, about her research and the delightful stories behind the tunes battalion members would have known.

Sheet music for: We Wept When We Remembered Zion ⁠https://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/collection/121/096⁠ 

Carl and Margaret Larson share his efforts to identify burial locations for all Battalion members - which is still ongoing today. Listen to his dedicated efforts and perhaps you'll be inspired to help fill in some of the blanks for men's burial locations that are still unknown.

If you know of a battalion grave that does NOT have a battalion plaque, please contact the Mormon Battalion Association or comment in this podcast feedback form.

In the next episode you'll hear how Margaret's mind caught a hold of some trivia that she found in Carl's research.

Carl Larson's research was absolutely critical to Kevin Henson's modern delination of the trail. His years of diligent research also serves as the basis for the Battalion Association's current efforts to identify an accurate battalion roster. We think you'll enjoy meeting Carl and his wife Margaret and be amazed at the effort it took to obtain the information described in this interview.

The next episode shares how the burial site project came to be.

Kevin & Denny were asked to present a fireside on the Spiritual lessons they learned from walking The Mormon Battalion Trail. This is the recording of that fireside given on April 23, 2023 in Midland Michigan.

As ordinary people who found themselves in an extraordinary situation, they reflect on the things that touched their hearts & blessings that came to them through God's love. Many times those blessings came in the form of earthly angels such as those present at the fireside and many others who supported them along the trail.