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FamilySearch Indexing is a volunteer project established and run by FamilySearch, a genealogy organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.The project aims to create searchable digital indexes of scanned images of historical documents that are relevant to genealogy.
The FamilySearch Research Wiki (formerly also known as the FamilySearch Wiki or the Family History Research Wiki) is a website containing reference information and educational articles to help locate and interpret genealogical records. [1] [2] The wiki is part of the FamilySearch website and was launched in 2007.
Logo of the Genealogical Society of Utah. GSU, the predecessor of FamilySearch, was founded on 1 November 1894. Its purpose was to create a genealogical library to be used both by its members and other people, to share educational information about genealogy, and to gather genealogical records in order to perform religious ordinances for the dead.
The FSCs were put under the overall direction of Archibald F. Bennett. By December 1964, there were 29 FSCs, and by 1968, there were 75. In 1987, these institutions were renamed "Family History Centers." On January 10, 2023, the LDS Church announced that Family History Centers would be known as FamilySearch Centers. [3]
The church had 85,000 members and 204 parishes and 103 congregations and 54 mission churches in 2011 a decrease of 25,000 since 2021, mostly in southern Slovakia among Hungarians. [3] In 2011, the Church had about 110,000 members.
In 2020, there were over 3,000 priests and almost 2,000 nuns serving across more than 1,500 parishes. [ 3 ] By taking the percentage of the current practitioners of the Vatican City -led Catholic Christianity as an indicator, Slovakia (59.8% practicing Catholics) is third most Catholic-majority Slavic polity in Europe after Poland (71.3% ...
The records for genealogical research are available at the state archive "Statny Archiv in Presov, Slovakia" Roman Catholic church records (births/marriages/deaths): 1772–1895 (parish A) Greek Catholic church records (births/marriages/deaths): 1834–1895 (parish B)
The church is organised as a single ecclesiastical province with one metropolitan see. [2] Its liturgical rite is the Byzantine Rite. In 2008 in Slovakia alone, the Greek Catholic Church in Slovakia had some 350,000 faithful, 374 priests and 254 parishes. In 2017, the Catholic Church counted 207,320 Greek Catholics in Slovakia worldwide ...