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From: "Janet G. Hornick" <>
Subject: Family History Library Update
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 20:08:37 -0700


Following are two articles received from another newslist.

>Sender: "LDSWorld-Gems
>In this LDSWorld-Gems News Update (4 March 1999):
>- Church genealogy website being prepared

>
>CHURCH GENEALOGY WEBSITE BEING PREPARED
>See http://www.msnbc.com/news/246411.asp
> <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/246411.asp">Link</a>;
>
>Many Gems subscribers wrote to us about this article - a report called
>"Genealogy bounty coming to Web." According to the report, "Much to the
>delight of genealogists, the Mormons are preparing to make some of their
>vast holdings of family records available on the World Wide Web for the
>first time next month, if not sooner." The new website will be found at
>http://www.familysearch.org and is set for release in April; a test period
>in March may be restricted to a small group of selected testers who will
>be given a password. There is lots of good information in the article
>about the Church's focus on genealogy.
>
>See http://newsnet.byu.edu/noframes/show_story.cfm?number=9543
> <a
href="http://newsnet.byu.edu/noframes/show_story.cfm?number=9543">Link</a>;
>
>The BYU newspaper reports that the trial period will be held sometime in
>March or April, with a formal launch date of "early summer."

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