The LDS Church and FamilySearch, a non-profit organization, launched a joint project called the Freedmen's Bureau Project Friday to restore and index millions of records about former slaves.

A record RootsTech. Perhaps nowhere has this burgeoning interest been so evident as the Feb. 25-27 all-virtual RootsTech Connect conference, co-sponsored by FamilySearch and Ancestry, along with ...

At Friday's press conference, the LDS Church's Elder D. Todd Christofferson makes the major announcement on the effort to digitize 1.5 million handwritten records. He also expressed mourning for ...

Thom Reed, marketing director at the LDS-sponsored FamilySearch International, the world’s largest genealogy organization, said, “These records will open a window that we’ve never had opened ...

On the 150th anniversary of “Juneteenth,” the final freeing of slaves after the Civil War, the LDS Church announced Friday a project to emancipate from obscurity key records of about 4 million ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will now allow users to document same-sex relationships on its genealogical data site FamilySearch. Users will be able to document same-sex ...

FamilySearch boasts 2.5 million rolls of microfilmed records in a vault near Salt Lake City, where the LDS church has its headquarters, said John de Jong, FamilySearch’s field-relations manager ...

FamilySearch is a free service provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. FamilySearch has published its 8 billionth searchable name from its historical records collection.

Local members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints awarded the 92-year-old Moreland, Idaho, woman Wednesday night for indexing one million names. Indexing, ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is in need of help indexing records. It’s partnering with the Smithsonian and others to digitize records from the Freedmen’s Bureau.

FamilySearch, a genealogical organization sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is indexing some 4 million historical records from the Freedmen's Bureau, an agency set up ...

If you’ve used FamilySearch recently, you’ve noticed more than a few changes. In December, www.familysearch.org announced it had added “millions more scanned, historical documents and ...