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The Early Church Information File (ECIF) is an alphabetical card index of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) along with some of their neighbors. It focuses most on the years from 1830 to 1914. This file indexes over 1,200 sources with an abundance of entries for Latter-day Saints. The ECIF contains 1,091,919 cards. Each person found in the ECIF is listed on about one to a dozen cards. Each card for an individual cites a different source document. Most source documents contain further details about that person. Cards for any one individual may be scattered under variations of his or her name. | The Early Church Information File (ECIF) is an alphabetical card index of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) along with some of their neighbors. It focuses most on the years from 1830 to 1914. This file indexes over 1,200 sources with an abundance of entries for Latter-day Saints. The ECIF contains 1,091,919 cards. Each person found in the ECIF is listed on about one to a dozen cards. Each card for an individual cites a different source document. Most source documents contain further details about that person. Cards for any one individual may be scattered under variations of his or her name. | ||
These cards were originally preserved on 75 rolls of | These cards were originally preserved on 75 rolls of {{FHL|480808|title-id|disp=FHL Films 1,750,655 to 1,750,729}}. These microfilmed card images are now also made available on the Internet via a ''FamilySearch Historical Records '' collection mislabeled as ''[https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2078505 Utah, FamilySearch, Early Church Information File, 1830-1900]''. The card images on this free Internet site can easily be browsed in alphabetical order, but the names on the cards are not <u>computer</u> indexed. | ||
This file is certainly '''not limited''' to people from Utah. The index is international in scope and should be among the first sources checked when searching for Latter-day Saint ancestors or | This file is certainly '''not limited''' to people from Utah. The index is international in scope and should be among the first sources checked when searching for Latter-day Saint ancestors or their neighbors living in areas heavily populated by Latter-day Saints such as the United States Mountain-West. It indexes information from sources like: | ||
:*Latter-day Saint membership records. | :*Latter-day Saint membership records. | ||