LaJean Carruth is a senior historian at the Church History Library in Salt Lake City, where she transcribes nineteenth- and early twentieth-century documents written in Pitman shorthand, Taylor shorthand, and the Deseret Alphabet. She has transcribed sermons delivered by Brigham Young, John Taylor, and Wilford Woodruff, among others; the shorthand notes from the trials of those accused of killing Joseph Smith; John D. Lee’s trials for his participation…