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Credit unions search service is absolutely free of charge. As of October 2011 the largest American credit union was Navy Federal Credit Union serving U.S. Department of Defense employees contractors and families of servicepeople with over $45 billion USD in assets and over 3.4 million members. You can find the closest credit union location by ZIP code or address. U.S. credit unions can be chartered by either the federal government ("federal credit unions") or by a state. Modern credit union history dates to 1852 when Franz Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch consolidated the learning from two pilot projects one in Eilenburg and the other in Delitzsch in Germany into what are generally recognized as the first credit unions in the world. Credit unions offer many financial services which are the same as offered by banks often using a different terminology; common services include: share accounts (savings accounts) share draft accounts (checking accounts) credit cards share term certificates (certificates of deposit) and online banking.