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 == Our customers -- and why serving every country is important  ==
-We serve millions of customers each year and, although the Research Wiki is funded by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the overwhelming majority of our users are not LDS. The folks who use the Wiki range from the richest of people to the poorest. They come to the Wiki to find their ancestors and to get help as they do their genealogy. We have records here from 244 countries all over the planet and that number is growing.
+We serve millions of people each year and although the Research Wiki is funded by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the overwhelming majority of our users are not LDS. The folks who use the Wiki range from the richest of people to the poorest. They come to the Wiki to find their ancestors and to get help as they do their genealogy. We have records here from 244 countries all over the planet and that number is growing.
 Some people are curious as to how there could be a demand for genealogical research support regarding a country where people live on a dollar a day. If residents there must focus their time and resources so heavily on mere survival, how could anyone there be doing genealogy? One of the answers lies in emigration.