New Website Features

The Wilford Woodruff Papers team is dedicated to transcribing and publishing all of Wilford Woodruff’s journals, correspondence, and records so they are universally accessible online. With the use of technology, we have developed features to enhance your personal experience.

The Wilford Woodruff Papers Relative Finder works in conjunction with FamilySearch to generate a list of your relatives in the Papers with links to their FamilySearch profiles. It also shows the documents your ancestors are mentioned in, with a link to the exact pages. Exploring Wilford Woodruff’s records that include your relatives is simple!

Do you want to know if your ancestors and Wilford Woodruff crossed paths? You may be surprised what stories you unearth and what family members you discover!

This feature is possible through our partnership with FamilySearch.org.

See the Impact of the Relative Finder

Learn How to Use the Relative Finder

Check out thousands of Wilford Woodruff's daily journal entries with linked people, places, events, and documents. "Day in the Life" also connects each date in his journals to corresponding days in the journals of Emmeline B. Wells, George Q. Cannon, and Brigham Young and to The Joseph Smith Papers. You can dive deeper into Church history through these contextual resources.

Watch the "Day in the Life" Commercial

Learn How to Explore "Day in the Life"

This feature is possible through partnerships with the Brigham Young Center and the Church Historian's Press.

Introducing NEW resources to enhance your Come, Follow Me study! Enjoy these unique weekly insights into the history, people, places, events, and stories from the Restoration.

How to Use the Come, Follow Me Feature

Wilford Woodruff’s personal scriptures are now available online, filled with his notes documenting personal insights and his testimony as he studied the word of God. All scripture references in his discourses, correspondence, and journals are also indexed, so you can use them in talks and lessons and personal study too!

Watch the Scripture Feature Commercial

Learn How to Use the Scripture Feature

Meet Clara, our AI Chatbot. You can find her on our website and ask her questions about what has been found in Wilford Woodruff’s eyewitness account of nineteenth-century Church history and many other topics. If you don't know where to start, she can provide whatever introductory information you are interested in.

Watch the AI Chatbot in Action

Share the Excitement!

Think about it—Wilford Woodruff was alive from 1807 to 1898. He was born during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson, two years before Abraham Lincoln; he was 23 years old when The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized in 1830; and he began keeping his records of the Restoration of the gospel three years later. His journals are one of the most complete accounts of the history of the Church in the nineteenth century, full of personal interactions, first-hand accounts of events in involving thousands of other individuals, and stories not recorded anywhere else. Your relatives may be connecting you to this history—from his pen to your family tree and directly to you. 

Share what you learn with your friends and your family!