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From: "Mary Lou Clegg" <>
Subject: LDS Microfilm
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 23:21:32 -0500

LDS Church to put microfilmed records online

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) has more
than 2 million rolls of microfilmed birth, death and census records
stored in granite vaults in the Wasatch Mountains, 25 miles southeast of
Salt Lake City. According to the Associated Press, the church has now
announced plans to digitize and index that information and make in
available on the Internet.

"The goal is to create (Internet-accessible) indexes to all the films
we have in the vault. That's a long-term process and that's a lot of
films," said Paul Nauta, manager of public affairs for the church's
FamilySearch Web site. The date when the indexes will be available has
not been announced.

You can read more at http://tinyurl.com/8dtz2

Posted by Dick Eastman on September 14, 2005 |

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