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From: "S White" <>
Subject: Re: Living Roots
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 09:40:21 -0700
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Hi

The longer address wont get me to the site. The shortened one below will.

http://ldsliving.ldsroots.com/

Simon White
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Boudreaux" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 3:28 AM
Subject: Re: Living Roots


> That looks VERY interesting, hope they can pull it off. ONE big database
> with everone in it. Wonder how they will handle discrepancies??
> Don Boudreaux
> Lafayette, LA.
>
> james perry wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Received this today from an LDS Newsletter.
> > It might be of interest for some people
> >
> > James
> >
> > LDS NEWS HEADLINES:
> >
> > Genealogy is often like a complicated jigsaw puzzle made up of billions
of
> > pieces scattered all over the world. Fitting the right pieces together
is
> > a tremendous challenge. Everyone has a few pieces of the puzzle but
have
> > never seen how their pieces fit with the others. Some of us have
organized
> > small teams and have pieced a corner or part of the border together, but
> > the real problem is that we have all been working on our own independent
> > card tables. Also, much of the hard work has been duplicated thousands
of
> > times by people doing the same line unknowingly. A new website is about
to
> > change that. LDSLiving's LDSROOTS recently launched new technology
> > designed to be "a giant card table large enough for the world to work
> > together on genealogy." The online service is a collaborative database
> > where users pool their knowledge and records to build one huge shared
> > database. LDS Living's LDS ROOTS is built on the concept of sharing
data,
> > not just storing it. In the spirit of sharing, continuous searches are
> > automatically performed for possible matches with your data amid data
> > submitted by more than 100,000 people in over 131 countries. When a
match
> > is discovered, an indicator in the form of a light bulb will appear in
> > your family tree. A member might look at their family tree at
breakfast,
> > and come back at lunch to find new light bulbs lighting up their family
> > tree.
> > http://ldsliving.ldsroots.com/redirect.z?lid=21000&url=
> >
> > ==== ACADIAN-CAJUN Mailing List ====
> > I use and highly recommend "Genealogy Detective 2000", one of the
> > hottest new (inexpensive)Internet genealogy resource tool available:
> > Click here for details:
> >
http://www.genealogydetective.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=Cajun
>
>
> ==== ACADIAN-CAJUN Mailing List ====
> I use and highly recommend "Genealogy Detective 2000", one of the
> hottest new (inexpensive)Internet genealogy resource tool available:
> Click here for details:
>
http://www.genealogydetective.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=Cajun
>
>

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