Organizations
Turley has been involved with several genealogical and historical organizations.
- Historic Sites Committee (LDS Church)
- President of the Genealogical Society of Utah (2000–2008),
- The Joseph Smith Papers editorial board
- Executive Committee of the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History
- General editor of The Journals of George Q. Cannon series
- President of the Salt Lake City Chapter of the Sons of Utah Pioneers (1990)
- Vice President of the Small Museum Administrators Committee, American Association of Museums
- Utah State Historical Records Advisory Board, National Historical Publications and Records Commission
- Copyright Task Force, Society of American Archivists
- Moderator for The Worlds of Joseph Smith conference in 2005
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