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Subject: Re: BELGIUM-ROOTS-D Digest V99 #174
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 17:25:43 EST
Hello, all. I received this through another mailing list today and thought I
would pass it on to all us Belgians...
Best wishes,
Sue
This is a bit long winded but worth reading. PLEASE circulate, at
least the address of the FAMILY SEARCH, to any roots-l you may belong
(to) so that the LDS will consider to keep it running."
As the director of a LDS Family History Center, I have received a notice
from Salt Lake LDS FHL, announcing the Beta testing of Family Search on
line. It is not yet up, a problem with a piece of equipment, but will
be starting sometimes this month and will be up only a few weeks as a
test run.
If there is not a lot of interest it will be taken off and not put back
on. So spread the word and keep trying to get through. When it comes on
line the URL will be:
http://www.familysearch.org
I have not been told exactly what will be available but know at least
the Ancestral File and Family History Library Catalog will be included.
Family Search is the name of the program we have on CDs in all LDS FHCs.
Some public libraries also have this program. FS includes the IGI,
Ancestral File, Family History Library Catalog, Social Security Death
Records, Koran and Vietnam war death records, and Scottish Church
Records.
For those of you not familiar with the various searches, the IGI is the
International Genealogical Index. It includes, in alphabetical order,
all of the names that have been sent to the Temples to have ordinances
performed in their name.
Names in the IGI are usually submitted by members, but not always.
Non-members also submit their family names to get them into the IGI.
Some of the marriages may have been part of extraction programs. The
names were taken from courthouse records and checked and rechecked by
several volunteers before being accepted as correct.
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