FamilySearch International (online at FamilySearch.org) is leading the way in digitizing and providing access to billions of historical genealogical records by collaborating with commercial family history companies and the online community. This collaboration will carve centuries off the time needed to increase access to the world’s historical records, enabling millions more people to quickly discover, share, and preserve family memories for generations. The attached infographic illustrates just how monumental and groundbreaking these agreements are in the family history industry

1. Let’s put the world’s
historical records online
in one generation
P R E S E R V I N G H I S T O R I C A L R E C O R D S H E L P S B U I L D F A M I LY T R E E S
FamilySearch has preserved 5.3 billion
records from the regions in black.
An estimated 10 billion more records need
to be digitally preserved from the regions
in black.
An additional 60 billion records need to be
digitally preserved from all regions.
M A K I N G R E C O R D S S E A R C H A B L E O N L I N E I N O N E G E N E R AT I O N
At the current rate, it will take 200 to 300
years (about 11 generations) to index online
the 5.3 billion records FamilySearch has
already preserved.
2014
2314
Collaborating with Others
Collaborating reduces the time to index
current records to 20 to 30 years.
2014 2044
C R E A T I N G T H E F A M I LY T R E E O F M A N K I N D F R O M a . d . 1 5 0 0
An estimated 28 billion people have lived
since a.d. 1500.
About 1 billion people’s information is
preserved in FamilySearch.org’s online
Family Tree.
About 27 billion people still need to be
identified and their information linked online
to complete the family tree of mankind since
a.d. 1500.
or
= 1 billion
C O L L A B O R AT I N G W I L L M A K E I T H A P P E N
The following organizations have announced individual collaborative agreements with FamilySearch
= 1 generation (about 25 years)
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Family History Community Alone