Family History Library
The Family History Library (in French: "History Library Family") is a research genealogy , based in Salt Lake City ( Utah , USA ) operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Saints days , open to researchers worldwide.
The current building was inaugurated on 23 October 1985 , has an area of about 37,000 sqm, spread over five levels.
Summary |
Overview of collections
- 2.4 million reels of microfilm
- 742,000 microfiche
- 310 000 printed works
- 4500 periodicals
Facilities available to researchers
- 200 micro-computers
- 509 microfilm readers
- 36 microfiche readers
- 28 reader-printers, microfilm and microfiche
- 4 microfilm scanners
- 15 photocopying of printed works (on incline)
- 396 seats (out of seats in front of a camera)
Researchers are also helped and guided by the permanent presence of over a hundred full-time employees, excluding the presence of a rotating approximately 400 volunteers from the church, specially trained for this purpose.
The Family History Library has hundreds of branches modest, around the world, in which researchers can, for a contribution to postage, obtain access to any microfilm preserved in the "house mother" of Salt Lake City.
Even if the database each year to baptize postmortem thousands of people who have never been Mormon in their lifetime, it seems worth noting that the researchers never outside the Church are experiencing any religious proselytizing Members of the Church, either in the library in Salt Lake City or in foreign branches.
Source material
Microfilm vital and church records from microfilm work done since the 1950's by roving teams of photographers sharpened by the Genealogical Society of Utah (Genealogical Society of Utah), genealogical branch of the Church. The teams worked so far in a hundred countries, having concluded agreements with the national directorates of archives: the first agreement signed with the Direction des Archives de France date from 1969.
Currently, the group of photographers in the Genealogical Society of Utah has 200 cameras filming, working in about 45 countries.
The original microfilms are kept under strict conditions of humidity and temperature in caves dug into the side of the Rocky Mountains , Little Cottonwood Canyon. The drilling of these vaults, we do not visit, was completed in December 1963, and they were inaugurated and dedicated June 22, 1966. They are theoretically protected against the risk of nuclear explosion.
Annual Trip to Salt Lake City
Each year, the group Genealogical Committee Established Air France organizes, from Paris , a stay of ten days in Salt Lake City for European researchers (several dozen at a time).
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