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From: "linda Hodge" <>
Subject: [JAMES-L] Fw: [MSWAYNE-L] Passing this along
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 09:23:27 -0800

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From: Dana <>
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Date: Monday, March 01, 1999 4:33 PM
Subject: [MSWAYNE-L] Passing this along

>Recieved this from another list
>
>Dana (the guy)
>
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>http://lds-online.com/family.htm#BBBB
>
>An article from the Global Gazette in February
>says:
>
>LDS Family History Library WebSite in 1999
>
>Rumors are flying about the possibility that the
>Family History Library in Salt Lake City might be
>starting a website.
>
>It's true. Curt Witcher, a director of GENTECH,
>attended their annual conference recently in Utah
>and came back with details about this long-awaited
>site. He shared them with me.
>
>The site will begin sometime in the second quarter
>of this year. Its name will be FamilySearch Internet
>Genealogy Services. FamilySearch is the copyright
>name of their CD-ROM genealogical indexes. This
>might make you think that these indexes will be
>available at the site, but this is not so.
>
>I know that many people will be disappointed that
>the International Genealogical Index and Ancestry
>File will not be included initially on the site...
>The online site will have the Family History Library
>Catalog. This is not the same as the version at the
>family history centers. It will be considerably
>enhanced. As well as author, title and LDS film
>number, it will include place names, surnames,
>keywords and subjects, all in searchable fields.
>This means that for the first time, researchers will
>be able to use the Family History Library catalog in
>the same way they use online library catalogs
>elsewhere (in public or academic libraries). The
>flexibility of the catalog will mean that we can find
>more books and films, more easily.
>
>The big question for most people who live far from
>Salt Lake (or even far from a branch family history
>center) is: when will the other FamilySearch options
>be included on the website. No decisions have
>been made about this yet.
>
>As I mentioned in my last column, the Genealogical
>Society of Utah, the family history arm of the Church
>of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has now
>begun a publications program selling sets of
>CD-ROMs on particular topics. I mentioned a
>six-disk set of British vital records indexes. Witcher
>informs me there are also sets of Australian Vital
>Records (price US$5.00) and United States Vital
>Records (price US$15.00). At the moment I am
>unsure exactly what is on these.
>
>Other projected series to be made available soon
>are vital records sets for Continental Europe, Latin
>America and Scandinavia, Ellis Island immigration
>records, the 1880 U.S. census and the 1881 British
>census (scheduled for summer 1999). The latter will
>be grouped in regions, but there will also be a
>nation-wide index.
>

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