These resources include FamilySearch, a powerful computer system that can help you identify your ancestors using information stored in its large automated files. These files include Andestral File, International Genealogical Index , and Family History Library Catalog. The IGI is also available in microfiche editions, the latest of which is dated 1993. The Centres may also have some reference sources and copies of some records from the Family History Library. You can do much of your family history research at a Family History Centre by requesting copies, from the Family History Library, of records from throughout the world.
Most records are on microfilm or microfiche and can be used at a Centre.
You pay a fee to defray shipping costs. Centres do not collect or preserve local records. Since their staffs are limited, the Family History Centres cannot respond to mail enquiries. Also, because these are not mailing addresses, mail will not be delivered. The Centres are open about twenty hours a week.