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Subject: Family History Books
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 11:27:30 EST


The following came over the Otsego Co., NY list. I checked it out briefly
and it appears to be what he says it is -- may be a good resource! Sue

LDS Digitizing Books, on-line NOW at BYU!!!

Oh BOY, here we go!

A dream coming true. The Family History Library is starting to digitize their
book holdings, mostly family histories to date, and they are putting them
on-line, fully searchable by any word or advanced search combinations. Five
thousand plus of these books are on the Brigham Young University Library servers
and readily accessible, NOW!

Here is a partial clip of an announcement I just received and I have only
made a quick check of how to find them and how to search, but it is very
exciting...

"…the LDS Family History Library has announced that it has begun the process
of digitizing and making available on the Internet all of the Family History
books in their collection. These are primarily books in the "929.273 Series"
that are currently housed on the first floor of the Family History Library
(previously housed on the fourth floor of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building). At
the present time (September2005), about 5000 books have been digitized and are
available, and they have announced that they are adding about 100 titles a
week to the on-line collection. Copyright issues are playing a role in
determining the order in which they progress through this task; books out of copyright
are being done first."

Go to the web site of the Harold B. Lee Library at BYU at
http://www.lib.byu.edu/, then on the home page, follow the links: Find Other Materials;
Electronic; On Line Collections at BYU; Text Collections tab; Family History Archive
from the list of collections that are displayed. The search box on the left
seems to be he one to find your books at and the search box on the right is for
searching within the pages on screen.

I have not used it enough yet to be proficient, but you bet I'll be checking
this little treasure out, a lot! -- Dick Hillenbrand
(He has posted this announcement on his website:
http://ny-genes.blogspot.com/)



Susan M. Roe

Seal Beach, CA

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