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The Scandinavian LDS Women database is an ongoing research and outreach project directed by Julie Allen, Professor of Comparative Arts and Letters at Brigham Young University, together with a dynamic team of student research assistants. Our goal is to make visible the lives of women who joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Nordic countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, and Finland between 1850 and 1920 and subsequently immigrated to Utah. Scandinavian LDS women convert-immigrants made up a significant percentage of the foreign-born settlers of Utah and contributed significantly to the development of Utah culture, but their stories have not been systematically studied, due in large part to lack of access to their life histories. This database is designed to make it possible to search for Nordic women by their names, the places they came from, and the places they settled, as well as to flesh out the facts of their lives with their own writings (letters, diaries, personal histories).

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