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The Joseph Smith Papers Project
The Joseph Smith Papers provide online and published documents about the life, work, and associations of LDS Church founder Joseph Smith. a searchable database for key words and topics within the papers, some of which relate to women.
Nauvoo Female Relief Society Minute Book
A major source for LDS women’s theology and history within the Joseph Smith Papers is the original Minute Book of the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo fully available online. This book recorded all proceedings of the Society between March 1842 and March 1844 –including elections, ordinations, teachings by Emma and Joseph Smith, and women’s blessings. Joseph Smith called this record the women’s “law and constitution” evoking notions of the “law and covenants” of the Church.
LDS Church Website
The official website of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints contains an array of resources and materials for members including women.
- LDS.org
- LDS Church History
- LDS Church History Library
- LDS Family History Library
- LDS Media
- LDS Publications
LDS Church Pages for Women
These official web pages of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints contain a vast wealth of new content specifically for and about LDS women. They feature topics ranging from women’s history and female missionaries to women’s Conference sessions and Mother in Heaven, along with full texts of new books on women. Pages also link to sub pages that discuss specific themes, like the Woman’s Exponent.
- At the Pulpit
- Everyday Women
- First Fifty Years of Relief Society
- Gospel Topics Essays
- Gospel Topics Mother in Heaven
- Gospel Topics Women and Priesthood
- LDS Women’s Relief Society
- LDS Young Women
- LDS Women’s Session of General Conference
- Something Extraordinary – Relief Society
- Women with a Mission
- Women of Conviction
- Women in Church History
- Women in Church History — Relief Society
- Women in Church History — Young Women
- Women in Church History — Primary
- Women in Church History — Auxiliary Publications
- Women in Church History — Woman’s Exponent
- Women in Church History — Resources