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Mormon Church Launches FamilySearch Genealogy Site Overloads
The Mormon church unveiled FamilySearch.org with access to 400 million names from as far back as 1500 and links to 4 000 other genealogy sites. IBM added a backup system as demand swamped servers, causing a six hour outage before resuming at about 500 hits a second. Church president Gordon B Hinckley framed the launch as a life changing contribution to family history.
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