My local genealogy librarian mentioned that a lot of databases and images have been uploaded to the LDS Family History site recently. It appears more will be added and this is a trial. They also need volunteers to index. Look in the upper right corner for the red square where it says "Go" and click there. This is something we've all been hoping for since Ancestry has taken over so much which is now fee-based and especially since it's costing more in gas to get to genealogy libraries and courthouses. http://www.familysearch.org/

Be very careful about taking that information as gospel as I have already found an error in Abraham Bowers and apparently the link to report the error or write them is not working as I couldn't get a message to go thru. They show in the 1880 census that Abraham is the son of Daniel and Sara J. Bowers, born in Mo. and died in KS. and this is incorrect. Daniel is the son of an Abraham Bowers who was born in Tenn. and died in Eureka Springs, Ark., and had a farm at Proctor, Mo. Daniel was my husband's gr-grandfather and Abraham his gr-gr-grandfather. The LDS has done a lot of wondrous things for genealogy, but they are not known for accuracy or correcting errors when found. I know they take what is submitted to them and if they get bad information there isn't much that can be done I guess, but I would think their indexers should be more careful in doing their job. If one volunteers for something one should do the best they can to be sure it is accurate when they submit it in my estimation, same with doing genealogy. A gathering of names is not genealogy as many people think it is. One should verify, verify and verify again, not just be a name collector! Thanks for letting me express my thoughts today on my little bandwagon. Lee Ripp. ----- Original Message ----- From: "D. Hinson" <dhinson@suddenlink.net> To: <BOWER-L@rootsweb.com>; <BOWERS-L@rootsweb.com>; <skipper@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 9:36 AM Subject: [BOWER] New data on LDS site > My local genealogy librarian mentioned that a lot of databases and > images have been uploaded to the LDS Family History site recently. > It > appears more will be added and this is a trial. They also need > volunteers to index. Look in the upper right corner for the red > square > where it says "Go" and click there. This is something we've all > been > hoping for since Ancestry has taken over so much which is now > fee-based > and especially since it's costing more in gas to get to genealogy > libraries and courthouses. > > http://www.familysearch.org/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BOWER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >