World Conference on Records

World Conference on Records 53 World Conference on Records NDER the auspices of the Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a World Conference on Records and a Genealogical Convention and Seminar will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, from August 5 to August 8, 1969. This twopart conference has been planned to bring together from all over the world people who are interested in and have the responsibility for the world's records and their preservation. They have been invited to participate in a discussion of "Records Protection in an Uncertain World." The Genealogical Convention and Seminar will be held concurrently and genealogical scholars, researchers and interested amateurs will present papers and exchange ideas on all types of genealogical problems. Papers will be given on such subjects as Church Records of the United States, Migrations within North America, Military Service and Pension Records, Indian Records in the United States, Canadian Research, Heraldry, and will include individual seminars on regional problems in genealogical research. Representatives from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Nationalist China, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Western Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Portugal, Samoa, Scotland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Wales will also participate in the Genealogical Conference, presenting papers and holding individual seminars for the discussion of genealogical problems in their several areas. For thirty years the Genealogical Society at Salt Lake City has been engaged in microfilming records from all over the world. The Society has accumulated over 600,000 master reels of film which are stored in the vast Granite Mountain Records Vault, southeast of Salt Lake City. Data from these films are filed on 36,000,000 index cards in the Society's library, perhaps the largest in the world. The program outlined by the Society offers a splendid opportunity for interested persons to widen their knowledge and observe modern techniques of records preservation. For further information contact the World Conference on Records, 79 South State Street, Sixth Floor, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84111. U