Family History and records are worth preserving. Here's an article about how the LDS Church is helping
countries to preserve family lines and details to their past. To find ancestors of your own, click on the new FamilySearch.
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Here's a few excerpts from the article:
"SALT LAKE CITY 28 April 2010 A massive excavation carved 700 feet into a solid granite mountain near Salt Lake City houses millions of feet of microfilm — all historical documents The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been keeping since 1938. The records are being digitized and published through
FamilySearch, a genealogical resource provided free to the public.
The Granite Mountain Records Vault is the official storage unit for 2.4 million rolls of microfilm containing approximately 3.5 billion images. The information links to billions of people in over 100 countries and is recorded in 170 languages."
“Preservation and protection of the world’s valuable records has been a longtime goal of the Church,” Verkler added. “Storing the records in the mountain vault where it is already cold provides the perfect facility for safekeeping.” Such a facility provides evidence of the Church’s commitment to not only collecting, but making the collections available to researchers worldwide. Archivists can offer microfilm or digital copies of the records to their reading room patrons without damage to the original vital records.
(Source: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Newsroom)
