The Granite Mountain Records Vault (also known simply as The Vault) is a large
archive and
vault owned by
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) excavated 600 feet into the north side of
Little Cottonwood Canyon. The Granite Mountain facilities feature a dry, environment-controlled facility used for long-term record storage, as well as administrative offices, shipping and receiving docks, a processing facility and restoration laboratory for microfilm.
Records stored include
genealogical and
family history information contained in over 2.4 million rolls of
microfilm and 1 million microfiche. This equals about three billion pages of
family history records. The vault's library of microfilm increases by up to 40,000 rolls per year. Since 1999, the church has been digitizing the genealogical microfilms stored in the vault. The church makes the records publicly available through its
Family History Centers, as well as online at its
FamilySearch website.
There is a second vault, two miles further up the canyon. However, this vault is owned and operated by Perpetual Storage Inc., and run
for-profit.
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