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Mormons Open a Records Preservation Center in Mexico

Photo: repository at the Mexico City Records Preservation Center. Credit: Deseret News.

The Mormon Church, known for its record keeping, digitization and preserving of old genealogical records, has recently opened its Mexico City Records Preservation Center

Photo: the newly-opened Mexico City Records Preservation Center. Credit: Deseret News.

According to a recent article in the Deseret News: “…the newly opened center is being called one of the ‘largest and finest’ records preservation centers in the worldwide Church.”

Photo: repository at the Mexico City Records Preservation Center. Credit: Deseret News.

The newspaper article goes on to say: “The Church operates more than 20 records centers around the world, including a major facility in Sao Paulo, Brazil.”

Photo: family history records. Credit: Church History Library (Salt Lake City, Utah).

The newspaper article reports: “The new facility’s reach stretches far beyond Mexico. Images of items being stored at the Mexico City center will become part of the historical department’s online catalog.”

Read the entire article from the Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah), 20 April 2017, here:
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865678264/Mexicos-rich-history-preserved-at-newly-dedicated-records-center.html

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