SALT LAKE CITY-Per a late Thursday statement, FamilySearch, the world’s largest genealogical service, has published its 8 billionth searchable name from its historical records collection.

Salt Lake City-based FamilySearch, a free service provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, adds over 1 billion new searchable records to its Web site daily.

These records come from virtually every country in the world.

FamilySearch was organized in 1894 as the Genealogical Society of Utah. It has grown from a parochial organization with 300 books of family records to a repository of 3.2 billion digital images.

It also boasts 490,000 digital books and an online Family tree feature with more than a billion user-contributed records.