Millions of LDS documents, images now online

"How many of you have come to the Church History Department and wished that you could pay someone to digitize the records so you could take them home with you?" Neilson asked. "Now, for a small fee, you can come and talk to our archivists and curators and actually request records. We will digitize them for you. You could take them, use them at your own place of work. We will also put them up on the Church History Library catalog.

The catalog web site features a historic sites tours and introduces new smartphone app that highlights many Mormon historical site markers in the Canadian province of Alberta.

Neilson's address to the conference-goers was part of a luncheon presentation that also featured assistant LDS Church historian Richard E. Turley Jr. and Wayne Crosby, director of global support and training. The two discussed how the church's efforts to collect, preserve and share the Mormon past have been decentralized in recent years, with church history advisers appointed locally to provide formal training.

email: rscott@desnews.com