Request Granite Mountain Vault

The mormon vault a k a the granite mountain records vault is owned by the church of jesus christ of latter day saints and is built 600 feet into the side of a giant rock in little cottonwood canyon utah although surrounded by rock technically quartz not granite don t think you can go dynamiting your way in there as it was constructed to withstand a nuclear blast and has steel bank.

Request granite mountain vault. Currently familysearch is in the process of digitizing the microfilms and making those digital records available through its. Granite mountain records vault and indexing. A granite mountain records vault employee looks for a roll of film so it can be duplicated for distribution. The majority of occupied space is dedicated to family history records but that s not all the vault contains.

There is nearly 300 feet of solid granite above the vault s laboratory and office area and 700 feet above the six huge vault storage rooms. The church of jesus christ of latter day saints built the granite mountain records vault in 1965 to preserve and protect records of importance to the church including its vast collection of family history microfilms. The storage area has three access tunnels faced with heavy bank vault doors in very strong encasements. Besides genealogical preservation and storage granite mountain records vault serves as the deep archives for a myriad of church materials.

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. I can see the door but that s it. The vault safeguards more than 3 5 billion images on microfilm microfiche and digital media. The world s largest collection of genealogical records is housed in a secure vault located in the mountains near salt lake city utah.

What else does the vault contain. The family history conference at the salt palace convention center presented a virtual video tour wednesday morning of the vault the seldom seen site of records preservation and storage for the lds church. The protection the granite mountain records vault affords cannot be equaled in an outdoor structure. I only live a few miles from here and have never had the opportunity to see the vaults.

While at the ngs conference in salt lake two weeks ago we viewed a video about the granite mountain records vault. This deseret news article gives us a little more factual insight into what else you can find inside.