The Granite Mountain Records Vault

For security reasons there is no public access to the granite mountain records vault.
The granite mountain records vault. I can see the door but that s it. The granite mountain records vault was built in 1965 to preserve and protect important family history and historical records. According to family search stored inside the granite mountain records vault are 3 5 billion images on microfilm. It was built in 1965 mostly to hold family history records.
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. The protection the granite mountain records vault affords cannot be equaled in an outdoor structure. Copies of these records are given free of charge to the record custodian and on occasion additional copies are provided to replace records that may have been lost in a natural disaster or fire. Besides genealogical preservation and storage granite mountain records vault serves as the deep archives for a myriad of church materials including scriptures in every language published large leather bound temple ordinance books that were hand kept through the 1960s materials and minutes from presiding priesthood quorums financial records backup tapes and audio visual masters from legacy to johnny lingo.
The images in the granite mountain records vault are collected through agreements with archives libraries and churches from more than 100 countries. I only live a few miles from here and have never had the opportunity to see the vaults. Granite mountain records vault and indexing. Psi is a privately owned and operated maximum security digital records microfilm data transport and storage vault facility located in a unique solid granite mountain near salt lake city utah.
Currently familysearch is in the process of digitizing the microfilms and making those digital records available through its website. It was awesome to get to see the inside. What else it holds the. The vault safeguards more than 3 5 billion images on microfilm microfiche and digital media.
While at the ngs conference in salt lake two weeks ago we viewed a video about the granite mountain records vault. The storage area has three access tunnels faced with heavy bank vault doors in very strong encasements.