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From: Jeremiah McDonnell <>
Subject: .LDS Web Page
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 13:43:43 -0500

I copied this off the PIERCE family newsletter this AM. The LDS site
(see address below) is working, although it takes some time to load it.

Cora McDonnell

> The site is at:http://lds-online.com/family.htm
>
>
> 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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