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From: "Bob Carter" <>
Subject: Fw: [VAROOTS] BYU Digitizing Family History Books
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 21:16:46 -0500


FYI from the VAROOTS list. Could be a good source of new information for
some of us.

Bob Carter
Greensboro, NC

----- Original Message -----
From: "JDRodgers" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 7:53 AM
Subject: [VAROOTS] BYU Digitizing Family History Books


> I saw this on another site and thought I would pass it along --
>
> ".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
"929.273Series"
> 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 (September 2005), 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
>
> 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 the one to find your books and the
> search box on the right is for searching within the pages on the screen.
>
>
> ==============================
> Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the
> areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months.
> Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx
>
>


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