In a twist on its records-digitizing and indexing programs, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' FamilySearch <www.familysearch.org> is turning to commercial entities for help.

For the Genesis Project, FamilySearch — the church's records-scanning arm — digitizes documents for commercial service providers (think Ancestry.com <Ancestry.com > and Footnote <footnote.com>) and record repositories. That takes care of the most expensive aspect of putting records online, says FamilySearch spokesperson Paul Nauta. Then the business or repository indexes the records.