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With its world HQ at the Family History Library, the Mormon church, officially the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, maintains about 100 Mormon Family History Centres around the UK, freely open to the public and containing many useful genealogical resources. The church’s interest in family history is religious – its aim ultimately is to identify as many people as possible, living and dead, in the context of their family relationships. To this end, they have amassed a vast collection of microfilms of original records from all over the world, including many British archives and many records described in this book. Any of these can be ordered to your local centre. The timorous should be reassured that visitors are entirely safe from any attempt to convert them – far from it: Mormons have made an immense contribution to this field, accessed for free. The Mormons’ free website, www.familysearch.org, is described in detail here. Another Salt Lake-based organisation, MyFamily.Com, which owns Ancestry.Com, has a pay-to-view website (www.ancestry.com), which contains a great and growing number of records, especially drawn from censuses.