The Family History Resource File Viewer is of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The viewer itself does not contain any data or resource file information, and it is not required that a person use the viewer created by the Family and Church History Department. However, some type of viewer is required to see the data in resource files. After you have installed the viewer onto your computer, you can add a resource file into your viewer.
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LDS stopped supporting CD products some time ago because the information is now all online.
Although there are still packages, e.g. census and others, available to buy from 3rd parties on CD or DVD. In some cases, it is more useful to have the data available offline and for that, you need the resource file viewer.
Version 2 is the most common I have seen, but it has rudimentary export options compared with later versions. Version 3.0 and up was a huge leap forward.