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== Our mission and funding == | == Our mission and funding == | ||
The mission of | The mission of FamilySearch is to provide genealogical records and services to customers worldwide. Our services are free, as are most of our products -- including data sets online. We have occasionally offered products at cost, such as genealogical records on CD-ROM. We are funded by contributions from members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). We are a non-profit organization. We do sometimes collaborate with commercial companies to provide indexes or digitized records, but we do not receive funds from them. Occasionally we charge patrons fees to recouperate costs such as the postage necessary to mail a microfilm to a patron at a Family History Center, but 99% of our resources are offered to the public free of charge. | ||
== Our customers -- and why serving every country is important == | == Our customers -- and why serving every country is important == | ||