Genealogical Society Of Utah

Family History Library in Salt Lake City

Genealogical Society of Utah (Genealogical Society of Utah ) is a nonprofit organization created by the Corporation of Presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , dedicated to genealogical research and family histories.

The Latter-day Saints believe that their first obligation is to accomplish, by proxy, the ordinances of the temple for the deceased members of their families to enable them to receive the blessings of the gospel. This desire has motivated the invention of the standard GEDCOM and the search for ancient records, thanks to the technology of microfilm.

History

Genealogical Society of Utah was created November 13, 1894. His goal was to collect, compile, build and maintain a genealogical library for use by all, and disseminate information on genealogical research and genealogy in general. In 1939, the Company entered the world of microfilm for records and records previously inaccessible. The first major collection consists of photographic reproductions of typed transcript of the most ancient records of county in the state of Tennessee. Thereafter, the microfilming program was extended to the rest of the United States and the world. After the Second World War, the photographic operations were extended to Britain , the Netherlands , the Belgium , the Switzerland , parts of Italy , of Germany , Scandinavia and Finland.

Vaults

Late 1972, the Genealogical Society of available 756 062 microfilm reels of 30 feet, a total of 22,681,860 meters, which is the equivalent of more than 3,607,002 volumes of 300 pages each. There were on the shelves of the library 114,392 printed volumes.

For the preservation of its records, a set of giant vault was carved out of granite mountains about 35 miles from Salt Lake City. There are nearly 200 feet of solid granite above the six huge vaults that were dug to a depth of nearly 150 meters into the heart of granite. The natural temperature in the storage room is throughout the year from 13 to 14 C and natural moisture is still 40 to 50 percent. These conditions are perfect for storage of microfilm.

France

In 1946 , an agreement was concluded between the French Society of microfilm and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to microfilm records of vital statistics. On 28 October 1960 , an agreement was reached between the management of the Archives of France and the Genealogical Society of Salt Lake City. On 29 June 1987 , this agreement was the subject of an amendment which was approved by the Decree of 28 September 1987 issued in the Official Journal of 20 November 1987.

Terms of the agreement with the Archives de France

Genealogical Society of Utah does the microfilming of parish registers and civil registration of over one hundred years old kept in the archives French public , to protect these documents and make them freely available on its network libraries. The main purpose of microfilming done by the Genealogical Society of Utah is to enable its members to identify their ancestors in order to administer their temples and religious rites in accordance with the doctrine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Saints days. Genealogical Society of Utah is granted the right to access and copy in exchange for a copy of the microfilm, preservation microfilming original in an underground shelter with favorable conditions for preserving, free, for French archives, the supply of security personnel from the underground shelter and provision, on request of French archives, film extra or replacement. ^{International}

• Sweden

In 2009, Family Search and Svensk Arkivinformation (SVAR), a branch of the National Archives of Sweden, announced the launch of the largest Internet indexing initiative ever undertaken. Both groups have their project to use volunteers read Swedish, worldwide, to help create an index on the Internet free of parish registers in Sweden, 200 years of Swedish history, containing over 400 million names.

FamilySearch Support

The Genealogical Society of Utah uses the genealogical data (ie the deceased) transmitted to the support FamilySearch one of whose main objectives is to enable collaboration between users of the FamilySearch site wishing to expand their knowledge of their lines and in order to collaborate with other organizations (including commercial genealogical organizations) to create a global common ancestry in order to increase the participation of people with genealogical research and preserve the common human heritage. This collaboration between organizations enables the Genealogical Society of Utah to obtain additional data that will be provided free to all users of FamilySearch, allowing them to increase their knowledge of their ancestral lines.

Genealogical research can be made by Latter-day Saints on the lines by blood, adoption and sealing, also the names of people who have a probable family relationship that can not be confirmed because the records are inadequate, eg those who have the same surname and have resided in the same regions as known ancestors. Excluded are the names of unrelated persons, including the names of celebrities or those collected as part of mining projects not approved, such as Jewish Holocaust victims. The data needed to perform the orders of the temple by proxy for the deceased are the name, surname, date or year of birth.

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