[Dravin]

I've always assumed it was a list of such things as Address, Age, Sex, Name (and family), Ordination, Baptism and Confirmation dates, Tithing, Fast Offerings and the like. Kinda like how they talk about transferring your records from one ward to another. Don't know if they append notes to it, and I've had it told me that Salt Lake has a department for lost records (Somebody isn't in the ward and we don't know where to send the records).

Don't know if all that stuff is backed up in Salt Lake, wouldn't surprise me though, you wouldn't want to have to remake all the records if a meeting house burned down.