FamilySearch Center

FamilySearch Centers (FSC), formerly Family History Centers (FHC), are branches of the FamilySearch Library (FSL) in Salt Lake City, Utah, operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

[2] The library collection has 2.4 million rolls of FSL microfilmed genealogical records and more than 742,000 microfiches in the main system.

In 2003, the collection increased monthly by an average of 4,100 rolls of film, 700 books, and 16 electronic resources.

Plans to organize FSCs in Mesa, Arizona, Logan, Utah, Cardston, Alberta, and Oakland, California, each adjacent to a temples in one of those cities, had been announced at the church's October 1963 general conference.

[2] Because of changing demographics, many smaller FSCs are closing with their resources being directed into "Library Class" facilities similar to the Los Angeles FHL, but not like the Riverton FSC that has computers only.

The BYU FHL was one of the original planned FSCs and is the largest FHC outside of Salt Lake City.

In June 2010, the LDS Church closed down many smaller FSCs in the Salt Lake Valley and opened the Riverton FSL, a misnomer, since the facility has no books and no magazines, having computers only.

Records from the United States, Canada, the British Isles, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa, are available.

In the late 1990s, a "pilot program" to update familysearch.org and digitize its entire collection was started using volunteers to input or "index" census and other data.