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The guide’s data

The lists behind the roll, the person pages and the Where they went map, as files you can download and analyze yourself, and a table of the roll you can sort and filter here. For charts the guide has already drawn, see Who they were and Where they went.

Before you count. The roll is not a full list of members: its compiler wrote that many baptized were never recorded. Sex and name origin are judged from names alone. Family Tree matches are confident unless marked probable, and the facts drawn from Family Tree come from a shared, editable tree. A blank means “not yet found,” not “none.” Small numbers can mislead; say how a figure was reached when you use one.

Citing and reuse. The files are free to reuse under CC BY 4.0, with credit. Cite the release you used: Rogers, Eric Paul, ed. Morrisite.org Data. Release 1.0, November 10, 2026. https://morrisite.org/data.html. Corrections are welcome at contact@morrisite.org.

How much is known so far about the 430 people on the roll. Every bar is a gap as well as a finding: the empty part of each is research still to do. See the names not yet matched in Family Tree or those matched but with no known later affiliation. If you can identify one, please write to the editor.

Name on the printed rollEveryone the 1886 roll lists.430 (100%)
Sex judged from the nameGiven names that read clearly as a woman’s or a man’s.425 (99%)
Matched in FamilySearch Family TreeA match to a person in Family Tree.178 (41%)
Birthplace knownFrom Family Tree.177 (41%)
Year of death knownFrom Family Tree.156 (36%)
Emigrating company knownThe pioneer company they crossed the plains with.98 (23%)
Documented somewhere after 1862In a census, list, deposition, land patent or death record.149 (35%)
Family tie to another roll member foundParent, spouse or sibling also on the roll.163 (38%)
Later religious affiliation knownRLDS, LDS, a Morrisite group, or killed in 1862.59 (14%)
Has a page of its own on this siteA person page gathering the sources.37 (9%)

The number of different people from the roll whom a record places in each state or region in each decade, from census, testimony, land, death and other records (the same data as the Where they went map). A person found in two places in one decade counts in both. The counts follow the surviving records: the 1870 and 1880 censuses supply most of the 1870s and 1880s, and from 1900 on almost every entry is a death record, so the later columns show where people died rather than where they lived. An empty cell means no one has been found there yet.

Where1860s1870s1880s1890s1900s1910s1920s and later
Utah433237759
Idaho913186227
Nevada226175215
California531323
Montana2139614
Washington3673312
Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri85143
Wyoming, Oregon21
Different people181048029221530

Release 1.0, November 10, 2026. Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0. The files on this page are rebuilt with the site, and each change of substance gets a new release number.

Changes between releases
  • 1.0 (November 10, 2026): First release: the roll (430 names), whereabouts after 1862, family ties on the roll, and others named as Morrisites.

Download everything (all four files and a README, 23 KB), or the files one at a time below.

Each file is a plain CSV (comma-separated, UTF-8) that opens in Excel, Google Sheets, R or Python. The files are rebuilt with the site, so they always match what the pages say.

The roll of membership, 1861–62

430 rows · 35 KB
What it is
One row for each of the 430 names on the roll printed by George S. Dove & Co. in 1886, with what the guide has added.
Download
morrisite-roll-1861-62.csv
Columns
roll_name
The name as printed on the roll. A repeated name takes its order on the roll in brackets, e.g. Hanson, Rasmus [1].
sex_from_name
F or M, judged from the given name alone; blank if unclear.
name_origin
Scandinavian, English-language, German or Swiss, or Unclear, judged from the name alone. Not evidence of birthplace.
familysearch_id
The FamilySearch Family Tree person matched to this name, where a match has been made. Blank does not mean no match exists.
familytree_name
The name and dates in Family Tree.
born, birthplace, died, death_place
From Family Tree, as pulled on November 3, 2026. Family Tree is a shared, editable tree; check the sources attached there.
company, company_year
The pioneer company the person crossed the plains with, from the records attached in Family Tree.
later_affiliation
Where the person is known to have gone in religion after 1862. Blank means not yet known.
person_page
The guide’s page for the person, if there is one.

Where they went

324 rows · 39 KB
What it is
Documented whereabouts of people on the roll after 1862: the data behind the Where they went map.
Download
morrisite-whereabouts.csv
Columns
roll_name
As on the roll.
year
The year of the record.
place
The place, as named on the map.
latitude, longitude
The map point for the place (approximate for towns and valleys).
certainty
sure, or probable when the identification of the person is likely but not proven.
kind
census, list, testimony, patent, death or note.
source
Where the record is.

Family ties on the roll

237 rows · 29 KB
What it is
Parent, spouse and sibling relationships between people on the roll, mostly from Family Tree.
Download
morrisite-relationships.csv
Columns
person, relationship, other_person
Read as a sentence: A is the parent of / spouse of / sibling of B.
familysearch_id, other_familysearch_id
The Family Tree IDs of the two people.
source
Where the relationship comes from.
certainty
probable if either person is a probable match.
note
Any qualification.

Others named as Morrisites

41 rows · 10 KB
What it is
People the sources name as Morrisites, or as followers of a later offshoot, who are not on the printed roll. Deceased people only.
Download
morrisite-others-named.csv
Columns
name
Surname first.
group
morris (Morris’s church), kington (held or tried after the siege), montana (the Deer Lodge church), or davies (the Walla Walla community).
earlier
earlier if known or said to have been with the Morrisites before joining Davies.
dates
As known.
what_the_sources_say
The guide’s summary.
source
The citation.
certainty
probable when the identification or membership is uncertain.

Sort by any column, or narrow the list with the filters. Each name links to its place on the roll, or to the person’s own page where there is one. The rows you see can be downloaded as a CSV.

Count the people on the roll by any two of these, for example name origin against later affiliation. Unknowns are counted in a column and row of their own, so you can see how much of each count rests on missing information. The table uses the same filters as the list above.

Small counts mislead easily. A difference of a few people between groups is well within what the gaps in the record could produce.

Cite this page: Rogers, Eric Paul, ed. “Data.” Morrisite.org. https://morrisite.org/data.html. Add the date you consulted it.