FamilySearch — LDS Genealogy/DNA Database (Granite Mountain Records Vault)
mechanismIntelligence & Surveillance · Biotech & Transhumanism · Crypto & Digital ID
A church quietly runs one of the largest DNA and family-history databases on Earth, holding records on nearly two billion people, shielded from courts by religious status.
Who they are
FamilySearch is the enormous genealogy-and-DNA database run by the LDS (Mormon) Church, stored in the Granite Mountain Records Vault.
What they do
The engine reads it as a religion running planet-scale demographic surveillance under the legal protection of a church.
How it works
It holds 1.92 billion people in its family tree and ~16.93 billion searchable names, plus billions of record images; in 2014 it signed data-sharing deals with Ancestry, findmypast and MyHeritage, embedding the church inside the commercial genetic-data market; the stated religious driver is baptizing the dead by name.
Why it matters
It's the biggest single node in the DNA-database landscape, and unlike commercial rivals it sits under a tax-exempt, hard-to-sue church shield; the engine notes the announced purpose is saving ancestors' souls while the underlying reality is a giant database of the living and dead.
The engine's record — word for word
[Report #172] The exemption-fork applied to DATA: one of the world's largest genealogy-and-DNA databases, operated by the LDS Church under the church shield — a religion running planetary-scale demographic surveillance infrastructure. Scale (CORRECTED, from FamilySearch's own facts page): 1.92 billion people in the Family Tree, ~16.93 billion searchable names; ~2.4 million rolls of microfilm / ~3.5 billion images housed in the Granite Mountain Records Vault (Church newsroom, primary). The '18 petabytes' figure is single-source (FamilySearch-only, dated) — carry as such. 4 Feb 2014: data-sharing agreements with Ancestry.com, findmypast, and MyHeritage — embedding the religious institution inside the commercial genetic-data market. Wires beside state_biometric_id_buildout + gedmatch_qiagen_figg (forensic genetic genealogy) + decode_genetics_amgen (population sequencing): FamilySearch is the largest single node in that lineage, and it sits under a tax-exempt, court-untouchable church shield the commercial players lack. Theological driver = posthumous proxy baptism (the dead must be named to be saved) — the doctrine that motivates the data-hoard; announcement = salvation of ancestors [CLAIM], substrate = a demographic/genetic database of the living and dead.
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