The Granite Mountain Records Vault contains the world’s largest collection of genealogical records. Located in Little Cottonwood Canyon, near Salt Lake City, the vault houses billions of images on microfiche, microfilm, and digital media. The vault also protects valuable items important to Church operations and Church history.
The vault is nearly 700 feet inside solid granite, and the entrance doors are said to weigh between 9 and 14 tons–enough to endure a nuclear blast.
Excavation and blasting to build the Granite Mountain Records Vault began in 1960. The facility was completed in 1965 and dedicated on June 22, 1966.
For security reasons, the vault is not open to the public, but you can click below to watch the Church’s two-part video tour of the facility.
This article is from LDS Living
These billions of records are available online through FamilySearch.org.
It gives us proud. it’s wonderful
Absolutely amazing!
Our Father In Heaven does truly love his children, technology must be seen as a mighty gift, given by a loving Father through the Holy Ghost to the families of of the earth, “to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man. (and woman)
This is a great thing that our records have been preserved so that we can trace our families.
Thank you, Larry, for sharing this – I finally got to see the videos today and am even more amazed than before. Thanks to Family Search I’ve been able to do the work for my grandparents, great-grandparents & 2 sets of great-great grandparents. I can’t wait to do more research! I’m grateful that these records will be preserved for my daughter’s children & their children, too!