It hosts more than five billion historical documents microfilmed or digitally scanned from governments, courts, churches, and other institutions and organizations around the world.
FamilySearch is a free service offered by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. It hosts more than five billion historical documents microfilmed or digitally scanned from governments, courts, churches, and other institutions and organizations around the world. Most are freely available to researchers at home, but some must be accessed from within a FamilySearch center or affiliate location due to contractual obligations. (Hint: your local genealogy library may be an affiliate!) In addition to images of original records, FamilySearch’s collection of nearly 600,000 genealogical books can be accessed online as can its single, shared family tree.