Kathryn Daynes

Associate Professor of History
Former Director, Center for Family History and Genealogy, Brigham Young University
Former Director, Immigrant Ancestors Project, Brigham Young University
Office: 2085 JFSB
Phone number: (801) 422-3683

Schooling

PhD Indiana University
MA Indiana University
BA DePauw University

Areas of Specialty

U.S. Family History, emphasis in Southern States
U.S. Social History

Accreditation

U.S. Mid-South and Gulf-South

Published Materials

Books

More Wives Than One: Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001)

Articles

"Virginia." Genealogy and Family History Conference, Provo, Utah, July 31, 2001.
"Mormon Polygamy." In Encyclopedia of Family History. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2001 (forthcoming).
"Annual Tax Rolls from the Revolution to 1850: Mining Deep for Genealogical Gold."Genealogical Journal 28, no. 4 (December 2000): 163-175.
"The Value of Tax Records." Genealogy and Family History Conference, Provo, Utah, August 3, 2000.
"Moving On: Patterns of Migration in the Southern States." Genealogy and Family History Conference, Provo, Utah, August 4, 1999.
"Southern Tax Lists." Genealogy and Family History Conference, Provo, Utah, August 4, 1998.
"Single Men in a Polygamous Society: Male Marriage Patterns in Manti, Utah." Journal of Mormon History 24 (Spring 1998): 89-111.

Chapters

"Diversity and Adaptation: American Families Over Four Centuries." Fulfilling the Founding: A Reader for American Heritage, ed. Gary Daynes. Fall 1999 ed. Needham Heights, Massachusetts: Pearson Custom Publishing, 1999. Pp. 273-302.

Reviews

In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith. By Todd Compton. Pacific Historical Review 68:3 (August 1999): 466-68.
Family History: Southern Genealogies #1, 1600's-1800's. Family Archive CD #191.Genealogical Journal 27, no. 2 (1999): 94-5.
Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. Edited by Lyon Gardiner Tyler. Genealogical Journal 26:3 (1998): 91-2.

Family History Courses Taught

Hist 220 - The United States Through 1877
Hist 400 - The Family and the Law in American History
Hist 377 - American Social History
Hist 404R – US Southern States Family History Research
Hist 404R - North American Family History
Rel C 261 - Introduction to Family History (Genealogy)
Rel C 293R - LDS Family History