Mesa Arizona FamilySearch Library

This article describes the services and resources available at a FamilySearch Center, a branch facility of the FamilySearch Library.

Mesa Regional Family History Center
The website is also available in Spanish

The Mesa Regional Family History Center is also known as the Mesa Arizona Large Multistake Center serves 54 Stakes in the Phoenix/Mesa Metroplex. The Center has 180 Missionaries trained to help more than 50,000 patrons who visit the Center each year.

Location and Contact Information

41 South Hobson Mesa,
Maricopa, Arizona, United States
Phone: 480-964-1200
Email Address: admin@mesarfhc.org

The building is located on the east side of Hobson, just south of Main Street and east of the Temple.

The Mesa Regional Family History Center also uses a building for training purposes located at:
464 E. 1st Avenue, Mesa, Arizona

Map showing Mesa Regional Family History Center

Hours of Operation and 2011 Calendar

Click here to view the updated Calendar and Hours of Operation

Schedule of Classes

Classes are free although some classes may have a nominal charge for elective materials.

Classes are held daily and taught by volunteers and missionaries at the Center. The Center uses class rooms both in the main building at 41 South Hobson and also at the Training Center which is located at 464 E. 1st Avenue, just west of the Temple.

There are two schedules of classes, one for the Main building and one for the Training Center. The Class Schedules are updated regularly and are on the main Mesa Regional Family History Website.

Please click on the link below to go to the Class Schedule page.

Class Schedules

General Resources

125 computers and 16 film/fiche readers
Free access to subscritption based Internet web sites, Including FamilySearch.org, Ancestry, Footnote, HeritageQuest, New England Historical Genealogists Society, World Vital Records, Godfrey Memorial Library and many other sites.
Pedigree Resource File CD's
Over 700 Commercial CD's with genealogical research data.
Over 17,000 Books.
Over 126,000 rolls of microfilm and 52,000 microfiche. Additional films and fiche may be rented from the Family History Library.
Copiers and printers are available.
Genealogy software programs,forms, research outlines, word lists, etc., available at cost in our Copy Room.
Free Classes and Workshops --- Over 113 classes and workshops scheduled each month.
Research Specialty Committees.
Workshops -- with 28 computers at the Family History Training Center, 464 E. 1st Avenue for hands-on-training. See current class topics being taught below.

Unique Resources

The Mesa Family History Center has maintained several online resources of a local nature. These resources include the following:

Mesa Regional Family History Center Arizona Obituary Search: The Arizona Obituary Search allows you to search through a partial listing of obituaries published in Arizona newspapers. This is an index only. For original obituaries, go to the indicated newspaper. The City of Mesa Public Library also maintains a microfilm copy of the Arizona Republic Newspaper and charges $15.00 per obituary search request. The City of Mesa Public Library perform obituary searches only for persons whose obituary appeared in the Arizona Republic newspaper.

Internment search in the Mesa City Cemetery: This resource is a listing of most of the burials in the Mesa City Cemetery in the form of a searchable index.

What We Do

Provide Research Help. We do not perform the research for patrons, but we answer questions and suggest possible sources. Come to our reference desk.
Provide Training. See the schedule of classes listed above.
Conduct Tours. Tours of the center are available during our regular hours for groups of all ages. Call ahead to reserve a time for Youth Tours and discuss the goals of the tour. Call after 3:00 pm for tours scheduled between 3:00 pm - 8:00 pm. Take a photo tour on line in English and Spanish any time.
Assist in cleaning up data files.
Provide Service Opportunities for missionaries and volunteers. (Call 480-964-1200)

Research and Geographic Committees

The missionaries and volunteers at the Mesa Regional Family History Center are organized into committees by research interests and geographical areas. Each of the committees has a basic introduction to its area of expertise called a Quick Start. Quick Starts are short statements about how to start doing research on a particular subject or in a particular geographic area. Click here to go to the main Quick Start page. Below are each of the committee's mission statements and links to its QuickStarts.

Military

All of the Military Quick Starts link to a PDF file directly from the Quick Start link page on the Mesa Regional Family History Center Website. Please go to the link page by clicking on one of the entries below:

Revolutionary War
Civil War
Pre-20th Century Wars
20th Century Wars