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From: "Tracey" <>
Subject: Mormon church
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:52:27 +0930


Hi

I thought this might interest a few

Its an email I recieved from the Ayrshire site


Regards

Tracey






From Deseretnews.com:

LDS to put microfilm in vaults on Internet

Huge effort planned to index family history data
By Carrie A. Moore
Deseret Morning News

Ever wonder what's inside those secured vaults, owned by the LDS
Church, positioned high inside the granite walls of Little Cottonwood
Canyon?

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is working toward
allowing anyone with Internet access to learn more than they've ever
known before about the information contained on 2 million-plus rolls of
microfilm housed there. Currently, the church is compiling searchable
indexes to that information and will eventually make it available for
free through an automated database on the Internet.

The church excavated the vaults containing those records on
property it purchased in the 1960s, providing a safe repository during
the height of the Cold War for birth, marriage, death and census
information it considers essential for the salvation of mankind after
death. Now church leaders seek to make the information more readily
available to the world.

"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," according to Paul Nauta, manager of public affairs for
church's FamilySearch.org Web site. "We've not announced when people
will begin to start seeing" the indexes.
..

Full story at http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,605153189,00.html



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