Church History Library

I've been working on writing a personal history on my grandma, Donna Jean Vivian.  In the process of gathering information for this history I found out that my grandma wasn't the first member of the church in our family, like I thought she was.  It turns out that her grandmother, Donna Anna Hildebrand joined the church 18 Nov 1900 in North Carolina.  As I was trying to find sources to verify this information I wasn't sure if she really joined the church in North Carolina or if she joined the church when she moved to Denver.  I checked the Burke County, North Carolina 1900 census to see if I could find out where she was living at the time.  I searched for her in that census for what seemed like FOREVER, until I finally found her listed as Donnie Hilderbrand, living with her parents and siblings.  So, in June of 1900 she was still living in North Carolina.  There was a good possibility that she was baptized while she was living there.  So then I searched the church records that the Harold B Lee Library at BYU has for North Carolina, and couldn't find her listed anywhere.  Then I searched the Denver church records for the Denver District and found the records for her and her children.  They didn't say where she was baptized though, only when and by who.  She was baptized by Otto Lundberg and Jefferson George Hunt.  So I made a trip to the Church History Library located in the East wing of the church office building to see what information I could find there before they close to move to the new building in April.  I stopped in at the membership records office to see if her baptismal place was recorded on their records, but they informed me that it wasn't.  But the lady that helped me was able to tell me that her mother and brother were both baptized on the same day, and that her two youngest sisters joined the church in 1917!  That was exciting news to find out.  So I went to the Church History Library and searched the Missionary Indexes to see if Otto and Jefferson were missionaries.  It turns out that they were!  They served in the southern states mission. Jefferson Hunt was from Hobson, Hush, Utah, and was set apart for missionary work on 16 Aug 1899 and returned home on 29 Jan 1902.  Otto Lundberg was from Logan, Hack Fe, Utah and was set apart on 14 Jun 1899 and returned home on 20 Jun 1901.  Take advantage of the Church History Library now, before their records are unavailable for a few months this year!!