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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the "Mormon" church) has been collecting genealogy records for about 150 years. The records come from public and private sources - generally governments and churches, but occassionally newspaper obituaries, cemetaries, and other places. Many of these records are already available elsewhere and the church simply asks for permission to include them on their free genealogy site, familysearch.org. The Church also accumulates many records by offering to digitize and index the records free of charge in exchange for the permission to make them available on FamilySearch. Generally these records are already available to the public, but are not online so someone wishing to look through them must travel to the site where they are stored. Digitizing and indexing is a long and tedious process, so many organizations are more than willing to agree. You can help index digitized records so that they can be made available online by going to indexing.familysearch.org.

FamilySearch also has many records that are simply submitted by users - they aren't official records but just someone who knows the names and dates of their ancestors and submits them.

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