Bountiful Utah Heights FamilySearch Center

The Bountiful Heights Family History Center is available to serve community members free of charge. The Center is open to the public. We welcome all!

Location and Map

 * Address: 1250 East 500 North, Bountiful, Utah
 * We are located in Bountiful, Utah at 1250 E. 500 North, in a small building on the south side of the parking lot. Entrance is downstairs on the southwest corner of the building. Ample free parking is available.
 * Please note that this is not a mailing address. Due to limited staff, Family History Centers are unable to respond to mail inquiries.
 * Location on Map Google Maps has a bug which makes it impossible to point to our exact location. We are a half block east of where the map points.

Center Contacts and Hours
Telephone: 801-299-4245

Open Hours:


 * Monday: 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
 * Tuesday: 10:00 am to 2:00 pm; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
 * Wednesday:, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
 * Thursday: 10:00 am to 2:00 pm; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
 * Friday: 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
 * We are closed Saturday and Sunday
 * Call in case of inclement weather

Holiday Schedule


 * Closed Labor Day - Monday September 3
 * Closed Thanksgiving - Wednesday November 21, Thursday 22 and Friday 23
 * Closed Christmas and New Years - Thursday December 20 thru Tuesday January 1, 2013
 * Closed Martin Luther King Day - Monday Jan 21, 2013
 * Closed Memorial - Monday May 27, 2013
 * Closed Independence Day - Thursday July 4, 2013

Directors:


 * Leon A, Davies Dee C. Hansen

Our Patron Resources

 * 14 patron computers
 * 1 microfilm reader
 * 1 microfilm/microfiche reader-digitizes on a dedicated computer to a printer
 * 2 multi-use printers
 * 1 copy machine
 * Ceiling mounted Projector
 * Internet access.
 * Training room: 6 computers
 * Dry magnetic writing board.
 * Free access to Premiium Online Portal websites, including Ancestry.com, Footnote.com, Find My Past, Godfrey Memorial Library, Heritage Quest Online, 19th Century British Library Newspaper Digital Archive, Alexander Street Press - The American Civil War, The Genealogist, Historical Map Works Library Edition, World Vital Records, and much more.
 * A collection of books containing biographies, research guidance materials, indexes, and databases.
 * 48 Literature shelves with handouts for Priesthood Leadership, Auxillaries, New Family Search classes, Research classes and Center resources guides.
 * Many training materials from genealogical conferences.
 * Many training materials from genealogical conferences.

Our Personnel
• We have 55 Family History Library Consultants to assist you. These volunteers donate their time and some specialize in the following areas:


 * •U.S. Research
 * •British Research
 * •German Research
 * •American Indian Research
 * •New FamilySearch

Library Background
• The Bountiful Utah Heights Multistake Center is a branch library of the Genealogical Library located in Salt Lake City. The main library was founded in 1894 to gather genealogical records and assist members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with their family history and genealogical research. The main Library is the largest library of its kind in the world and is visited by an estimated 1,900 or more individual patrons and groups each day. Our branch library is much more modest.

Records Collection
• Through a microform circulation system, we have access to the main library's collection of many of the genealogical records of the world.

• Our computers access the FamilySearch database which contains many millions of names linked into families.

Training and Assistance
• We offer access to and assistance in the use of many internet research sites. We can also assist you with the use of The Family History Library Catalog, the online catalog describing the holdings of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.

• Other training in such things as research basics, data management programs, the Research Wiki, and other programs can be arranged by appointment by calling the director at 801-292-9048.

Classes

 * “Learning to Use the Family History Library Catalogue”, Part I to be taught by Bob Fowles Time Thursday October 25, 2012 at 2:15 pm. Location Bountiful Heights FHC
 * “Learning to Use the Family History Library Catalogue”, Part II to be taught by Bob Fowles Time Thursday November 1, 2012 at 2:15 pm. Location Bountiful Heights FHC

Guides

 * Johni Cerny, and Wendy L. Elliott, The Library: a Guide to the LDS Family History Library (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Pub., 1988) [].
 * J. Carlyle Parker, Going to Salt Lake City to Do Family History Research, 3rd ed. (Turlock, Calif.: Marietta Pub., 1996) [].

Family History Centers
• Family history centers (FHC) are branches of the Family History Library. • Over 4,000 family history centers operate in more than 88 countries. • Local family history centers are staffed by helpful volunteers. • About 100,000 rolls of microfilm are circulated to family history centers each month.

• Click here to locate the nearest family history center, in your area, or call 1-866-406-1830 in the United States and Canada.

Alternate Repositories
If you cannot find a source you need at the Family History Library, try one or more of these other repositories.

Repositories with very large genealogical collections


 * Library of Congress, Washington, DC, Local History and Genealogy Reading Room is part of the world's largest library including 50,000 genealogies, 100,000 local histories, and collections of manuscripts, microfilms, maps, newspapers, photographs, and published material, strong in North American, British Isles, and German sources.
 * National Archives, Washington DC, census, pre-WWI military service &amp; pensions, passenger lists, naturalizations, passports, federal bounty land, homesteads, bankruptcy, ethnic sources, prisons, and federal employees.
 * Allen County Public Library (Indiana) home of the Periodical Source Index (PERSI), more than 350,000 printed books and 513,000 items of microfilm/fiche including family histories, censuses, city directories, passenger lists, military records, local histories, American Indians, African Americans, Canadian, British, &amp; German collections.

Repositories with significant Utah local history and Mormon Pioneer collections


 * Church History Library, Salt Lake City, LDS history 1830-present: diaries, manuscripts, Church records, photos, oral history, architectural drawings, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, maps, microforms, audiovisual material
 * Daughters of Utah Pioneers, SLC, the Museum displays artifacts, and the History Department collects and preserves about 100,000 histories of pioneers who set out for, settled, or were born in Utah by 10 May 1869.
 * Utah State Historical Society, SLC, family histories, photographs, books, manuscript collections, telephone directories, maps, newspapers, yearbooks, and periodicals are available in the Research Center and online.