Countless records about our ancestors are stored in this vault, like pure gold buried deep in the heart of a mountain of solid granite. Master microfilms of genealogical records are stored in this climate-controlled vault carved out of the mountain. The vault preserves almost 2.4 million microfilms and nearly 1 million microfiche acquired over the decades. That represents more than 3 billion pages of family history records, the largest collection of its kind in the world.

The greater portion of the microfilm collection covers the time period from the early seventeenth to the early twentieth century, although some records offer glimpses of medieval times and earlier. These microfilms preserve copies of records acquired at thousands of archives and libraries in well over one hundred countries . They preserve centuries of historical evidence about our ancestors’ lives