Digitized government publication
1840 Census of Pensioners
The research uses this pensioners list to locate Jesse Tuttle in western New York.
The evidence
Every story leaves a trail
Records, published histories and family memories each tell part of the story. These source notes explain what an item supports and where its limits lie.
Sources cited in the family stories
Family-history account
A Deck of Ancestors: Nelson family material
A family-history account that provides leads for Seth Henry Nelson’s civic life.
Published local history
Alberta, Past and Present, volume 3
A period biography used to investigate Joseph’s business and civic life.
Institutional biography
Charles Ora Card: biographical record
Records Charles’s family and pioneer history.
Scholarly biography
Charles Ora Card: Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Biographical treatment of Charles’s Utah life, plural marriage, and work in southern Alberta.
Research dossier
Christensen and Scandinavian research dossier
The compiled branch identifies possible Danish, Swedish, and later Norwegian routes behind Pearl’s family.
Collaborative genealogy
Cyrus Williams Card: FamilySearch profile
An online family profile used as a pointer to Cyrus’s household and earlier Card generations.
Documentary-edition note
Emmeline B. Wells diary, June 1908
The editorial apparatus identifies Joseph Young Card’s marriage to Leona Bertha Ballantyne.
Family knowledge
Family recollections and relationships
Names and immediate relationships supplied by the family and retained in the research notes.
Compiled family history
Histories of Joseph Young Card and Pearl Eliza Christensen Card
A substantial family-history volume listed in the FamilySearch Digital Library.
Obituary
Jean Shirley Nelson Card obituary
The funeral-home memorial entry identifies Jean and gives her death date as April 9, 2019.
Institutional biography
Joseph Young Card: biographical record
The Church History Biographical Database records Joseph’s parents, life dates, and marriage to Pearl.
Obituary
Lester (Les) Charles Card obituary
The funeral-home memorial entry identifies Lester and gives his death date.
Memorial
Lester Charles Card: VE6CA memorial
A memorial preserving Lester’s family, RCAF service, later work, and amateur-radio identity.
Compiled research
Lester to Richard Card: compiled research ladder
The April 2026 research ladder names all intermediate generations between Cyrus William Card and Richard Card.
Obituary
Lincoln John Card obituary
Names Joseph Young Card and Pearl Eliza Christensen as Lincoln’s parents and Lester among his siblings.
Scholarly history
On the Western Frontier
Donald G. Godfrey describes the Card family’s work, migrations, and nineteenth-century life.
Institutional biography
Pearl Eliza Christensen: biographical record
Records Pearl’s life dates, marriage, and parents Joseph Mads Christensen and Emma Christensen.
Institutional biography
Sarah Ann Tuttle: biographical record
Records Sarah’s 1819–1894 life, marriage to Cyrus, and 1856 journey with the Edmund Ellsworth company.
Unresolved research question
Sarah Anne Tuttle: competing parentage hypotheses
Preserves the Jesse Tuttle/Dinah Holcomb Gillett and Daniel Tuttle/Elizabeth Babb hypotheses.
Scholarly history
The Brigham Young Family
Larry C. Porter follows John and Abigail (Nabby) Howe Young’s household and its religious changes.
Research notes
VE6.CA family research notes, April 2026
The project’s individual notes, evidence summaries, family imports, and unresolved questions.
Editorial evidence review
VE6.CA relationship evidence review
Relationship-by-relationship review of the modern family, Card, Young, and Tuttle paths.
Research inventory
VE6.CA research corpus inventory
An overview of the five family branches, unassigned research, seven deep research trails, and collected sources.
Compiled genealogy
Winters family genealogy: Nelson connections
A compiled family page used for collateral Nelson and Hanson/Hansen connections.
Documentary-edition biography
Zina Diantha Huntington Young
Identifies Zina Diantha and records her life from January 31, 1821 to August 28, 1901.
Documentary-edition biography
Zina Presendia Young Williams Card
Identifies Zina’s parents, marriages, and public life.
Published primary document
Zina Y. Card’s 1890 letter
A letter presented in a documentary edition, with historical notes.
More from the archive
Additional records and historical context
These items are preserved for further reading. Their presence in the archive does not establish every family relationship mentioned in them.
government publication
Alberta Public Accounts 1919: Cardston Investment Company, Page 125
Internet Archive
familysearch person
FamilySearch Person Page For Joseph Young Card
FamilySearch
historical article
RSC: Mormons Moving Into Southern Alberta
Religious Studies Center, BYU
academic history
Sarah Carter, The Importance Of Being Monogamous: Charles Ora Card Pages 59-60
Athabasca University Press
census index
1931 Canada Census Index For Jean-Shirley Nelson
MesAieux / MyHeritage network
familysearch person
FamilySearch Person Page For Seth Reed Nelson
FamilySearch