Do You have an ancestor who was a Handcart Pioneer?

A friend of mine showed me a REALLY cool website today
where you can find out if you have any relatives
who were in the Willie or Martin Handcart Companies,
or were with the Hunt or Hodgett Wagon Companies
(who followed the handcarts with supplies)
or if you have a relative who was a rescuer!

If you want to do a little research to see if you have any handcart pioneer ancestors here are some instructions for how to do so:

11.  Click here  

22.  Set up an account using your familysearch.org account log-in info.

33.  On the “relatives” tab, select Hodgett Wagon, Hunt Wagon, Rescuers, Willie Handcart and Martin Handcart

44.  Click “show relatives”

You might be surprised at what you find!

(I am related to 134 or the the handcart pioneers…very distantly, but still related!)

If you DO have an ancestor that you want to walk for, please let your Ma & Pa know so they can pass the information on to Sister McHood.  She needs to know by this Sunday (May 4th)