Conference record · 1866 October General Conference · 1866-10-06
Deseret News minutes (October 10 and 17, 1866) of the Thirty-Sixth Semi-Annual Conference, October 6-8, 1866. 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 surface later, 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; body confirmed accurate against the Weebly witness, no changes needed.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: independently re-confirmed no JD discourse text exists for this conference via two checks — (1) the IA OCR text of Journal of Discourses Volume 11 jumps directly from an August 19, 1866 discourse to a December 23, 1866 discourse, a chronological gap with no entry for the October 6-8, 1866 conference; (2) the historicalgeneralconferences.weebly.com witness page (fetched as raw HTML, not summarized) has zero Journal of Discourses bibliography entries for this conference, only Deseret News citations. Body collated paragraph-by-paragraph against the Weebly witness: session order, the sustaining-vote roster, and Woodruff's distinctive London/three-angels testimony all confirmed accurate with no OCR errors found. Confirmed fidelity: fragmentary remains correct per schema/schema.md for record_type: conference_record.
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