FamilySearch announced yesterday its free online databases of digitized historical documents have surpassed two billion images of genealogy records.
Last September, FamilySearch transitioned from its microfilm circulation services to a new digital model that makes its massive genealogical records collections more broadly and readily accessible online. The non-profit, volunteer-driven organization currently adds more than 300 million new images a year online from its microfilm to digital and field operations efforts.
The genealogy records include censuses, birth, marriage, death, court, immigration and other document types that are invaluable for individuals to make personal family history discoveries and connections. Online volunteers, partners, and emerging technologies help to eventually create searchable name indexes to the images, but in the meantime, images can be browsed and saved.
FamilySearch International, sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is the largest genealogy organization in the world. It traces its preservation work to 1938 when its forerunner, the Genealogical Society of Utah, began microfilming historical genealogy documents.
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