Mormon Global Genealogy Databases

Family Search

Search for your ancestors in the vast free genealogy resources of the Mormon LDS Church. In recent years, the Mormon genealogy web site known as FamilySearch has made huge improvements by giving free online access to copies of original records.

In the past, the Mormon genealogy records consisted of extracted data and member submissions (the IGI, Ancestral File, and Pedigree Resource File), but the new FamilySearch site offers rich international collections of historical records that consist of vital records, census records, and military records. Many of the record collections have online images that can be downloaded for free. New databases are being added at a quick pace and are browseable until the indexes are completed.

You may have to create and sign into a Family Search account, but it is always free.

Search by Location:

Search the New Family Search Site (Mormon Genealogy) consisting of original historical record collections of vital records (birth, marriage, death, and probate), census records, naturalization records, and military records from around the world. Many of the collections have downloadable images and most are indexed. All are free. New databases are added frequently.



Search for Your Family Tree:

Family Trees
Search for family trees in a collection of genealogical information taken from pedigree charts and family group records submitted to the Family History Department since 1978.



Search for Photos:

Photos
Find your family history in online photographic images. Search by name in user-submitted old photos, stories, and documents.



Mormon Global Genealogy Resources

  • Fan Chart
    Build an interactive fan chart of your family tree.

  • Free Online Courses
    Take an online self-paced genealogy course. The lessons take from between 5 minutes to 59 minutes and are available for beginners, intermediate, and advanced skill levels.

  • Research Wiki
    The most current free family history research advice for the genealogy community written by the genealogy community with over 60,000 articles to learn about family history. If you want to learn how to build your family tree with genealogy research any place in the world, this is the place to go.

    Browse the wiki by
  • country or by
  • topic

  • How to Start your family history
    The four steps for beginning your family tree - from the first step of remembering your ancestors to last step of searching for records for Your ancestor.

  • Research guidance by location
    Select a country, state, or province your ancestor was born, christened, married, or died to learn the basics for researching in that area.

  • Genealogy forms
    PDF files with step-by-step guides for researching by location.

  • Worldwide maps
    Downloadable historical maps from around the world.

  • Research helps
    A Guide to Research - step by step guides, word lists, and other research guides.




Family Search Indexing

The new FamilySearch site with its millions of original records and images is possible because of the thousands of volunteers from around the world who are helping to make more free records available through Family Search Indexing. You can help FamilySearch by joining the indexing project to make even more records available today. Volunteers are of all faiths but all have the same goal of wanting to help save the records of our past.



Mormon Genealogy Library

The Mormon Church has begun digitizing the millions of reels of microfilm that are in the Family History Library in downtown Salt Lake City, but not everything is online yet.

Search the holdings of the library catalog for more information about genealogy records that are available on microfilm and which can be circulated to a Family History Center near you for a small fee.