“Family history buffs now have access to a vast genealogy goldmine thanks in large part to the efforts of touring Mormon missionaries,” according to a report today [25 March 2013] in The Dominion Post.
The article continues: “For the past 18 months, Tom and Ann McVey, of Denver, Colorado, have been volunteering as part of a joint venture between their church's FamilySearch International website - the world's largest - and Archives New Zealand.”
“Volunteers have been furiously archiving screeds of New Zealand probate records for the past four years and have digitised and indexed more than a million images.”
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Read the entire article in The Dominion Post.
The Press newspaper in Christchurch, The Waikato Times, The Timaru Herald and The Marlborough Express also published similar articles today featuring the work of FamilySearch volunteers.
Read about why many members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are interested in genealogy.
Watch a video that provides an introduction to family history research.