Conference record · 1864 April General Conference · 1864-04-06
Deseret News minutes (April 13, 1864) of the Thirty-Fourth Annual Conference, April 6-10, 1864. Unlike many surrounding conferences, this source preserves only third-person summaries of each speaker's remarks rather than verbatim discourse transcripts; no Journal of Discourses bibliography entries with full sermon text were found for this conference at the time of this ingestion. Filed entirely as a conference_record; if verbatim JD transcripts for this conference surface later (cross-check JD volumes 10-11 for April 1864), individual talks should be split out at that time.
Official published minutes of the conference.
Digital transcript of the Deseret News minutes.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the official/CHL/JSP source plus scan/OCR witness; re-confirmed no OCR/factual errors after full paragraph-by-paragraph collation against the Historical General Conferences (Weebly) full-text witness.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: re-verified no verbatim JD discourse text exists for this conference via two independent checks — (1) the Weebly secondary-witness page (silent cross-check only, never cited as canonical) contains only third-person Deseret News-derived summaries with no JD volume/page citations; (2) the JD Volume 10 table of contents (covering Sept 1859-Dec 1864) shows a chronological gap from the November 6, 1863 discourse directly to a May 15, 1864 discourse, confirming no April 1864 sermon was ever typeset for JD. Body collated paragraph-by-paragraph against the fuller Weebly witness text: all speaker names, session order, sustaining-vote roster, and factual content confirmed accurate with no OCR errors or misattributions found. source_url intentionally left at the Utah Digital Newspapers collection root rather than a fabricated deep link; no confident direct permalink to the April 13, 1864 issue could be verified, so the honest fallback is kept per docs/ingestion.md (never fabricate a precise anchor without a confident match). fidelity: fragmentary confirmed correct per schema/schema.md for record_type: conference_record (never verbatim; this is a third-person summary, not sermon text, so it does not warrant contemporaneous_report-level completeness at the top level even though the underlying Deseret News witness itself carries that grade).
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