?The future of family history researching may be closer than you think,? said Rich Running at a lecture held on January 9, 2007, as part of the annual Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy sponsored by the Utah Genealogical Association.

Nearly 200 people attended the lecture, ?Opening the Granite Mountain Vault,? where production management leaders of the Church and Family History Department of the Church explained technological advances in two facets of genealogical research?scanning and indexing.

As a manager of product management of the department, Brother Running describes these changes as steps in building a ?digital highway? for genealogical researchers.

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