This is wonderful news about not having to order microfilm or fiche from the Mormon Family Centre. Does anybody know when this will all come about. I always hoped that this would happen. Alba Dunlop ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phillip Abbott - Abbott Farms" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 12:56 PM Subject: Re: Gittens in Barbados > That is great news . > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "callaloo" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 12:26 PM > Subject: Re: Gittens in Barbados > > >> The Mormons are also updating their files so that you will not have to >> order >> microfilm or microfiche. You will be able to get all the information >> online. >> They are testing the program now. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Ernest M. Wiltshire" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 9:56 AM >> Subject: RE: Gittens in Barbados >> >> >>> Cindy,Unfortunately your ggm's birth in 1896 wil not show up in the IGI >>> (The International Genealogical Index); in fact I have already checked. >>> But >>> you can most likely find it on the microfilmed Barbados Records. I don't >>> recognise the name Goin, but it might be familiar to others on this >>> List. >>> >>> I'm not sure where you live, but if you are in any sizable city you >>> should >>> be able to find an LDS (Mormon) Family History Centre. You don't have >>> to >>> be >>> a church member to use the centres; there you can order the microfilmed >>> Barbados records (they will bring in the film from Salt Lake City) and >>> you >>> will have to wade through the baptismal/birth records in the hope of >>> finding >>> Olive's record. They charge a small fee for bringing in the films, but >>> you >>> can usually ask that they hold them for six months to give you time to >>> do >>> the search. >>> >>> If you are lucky enough to find it, and thus find her parents, you may >>> be >>> able to go back another generation, finding the marriage if any. You >>> might >>> then spot other children with the same parents as you go through the >>> film. >>> Since you know the year of birth that already helps you narrow the >>> search; >>> it would be helpful if you knew what Parish she was born in, but I would >>> suggest that you start with St. Philip, St. Michael & St. George as >>> being >>> parishes where Gittens families tend to be concentrated. If that fails >>> you >>> can widen the search to other parishes. >>> >>> I already know of one Gittens family who moved from Barbados to Trinidad >>> about the turn of the century, and it would be interestting if Olive >>> turned >>> out to be a member of that family! >>> Good luck. >>> >>> Ernest M. Wiltshire >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] >>> [mailto:[email protected]] >>> On Behalf Of Cindy Loadman >>> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 7:29 AM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: Gittens in Trinidad or elsewhere in the West Indies >>> She was born in October 1896 in Barbados. She moved to Trinidad as a >>> little >>> girl (I don't know what age). She moved to California at some stage in >>> her >>> later life, and died there in August 1981. >>> >>> No virus found in this outgoing message. >>> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >>> Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.7/1232 - Release Date: >>> 1/18/2008 >>> 7:32 PM >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Folks, I hate to rain on your parade but it's going to be a long time before we see any Caribbean records digitized. I suggest you take a look at http://www.familysearchindexing.org/fsi-admin/navctrl.jsf?pname=currentProjects which shows where FamilySearch is at present with their digitization projects, i.e. completed projects, ongoing, and upcoming. Back last year I offered to help with digitization of Jamaican records and was told that they had no plans at the time to do these. So, don't give up on the microfilm ... I rather think that we'll be using it for quite some time to come. Dorothy ----- Original Message ----- From: Alba Dunlop To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 10:04 PM Subject: Re: Gittens in Barbados This is wonderful news about not having to order microfilm or fiche from the Mormon Family Centre. Does anybody know when this will all come about. I always hoped that this would happen. Alba Dunlop ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phillip Abbott - Abbott Farms" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 12:56 PM Subject: Re: Gittens in Barbados > That is great news . > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "callaloo" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 12:26 PM > Subject: Re: Gittens in Barbados > > >> The Mormons are also updating their files so that you will not have to >> order >> microfilm or microfiche. You will be able to get all the information >> online. >> They are testing the program now.

I will let you know since I'm Mormon and it is being tested internally. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alba Dunlop" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 9:04 PM Subject: Re: Gittens in Barbados > This is wonderful news about not having to order microfilm or fiche from > the > Mormon Family Centre. Does anybody know when this will all come about. I > always hoped that this would happen. > > Alba > Dunlop > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Phillip Abbott - Abbott Farms" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 12:56 PM > Subject: Re: Gittens in Barbados > > >> That is great news . >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "callaloo" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 12:26 PM >> Subject: Re: Gittens in Barbados >> >> >>> The Mormons are also updating their files so that you will not have to >>> order >>> microfilm or microfiche. You will be able to get all the information >>> online. >>> They are testing the program now. >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Ernest M. Wiltshire" <[email protected]> >>> To: <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 9:56 AM >>> Subject: RE: Gittens in Barbados >>> >>> >>>> Cindy,Unfortunately your ggm's birth in 1896 wil not show up in the IGI >>>> (The International Genealogical Index); in fact I have already checked. >>>> But >>>> you can most likely find it on the microfilmed Barbados Records. I >>>> don't >>>> recognise the name Goin, but it might be familiar to others on this >>>> List. >>>> >>>> I'm not sure where you live, but if you are in any sizable city you >>>> should >>>> be able to find an LDS (Mormon) Family History Centre. You don't have >>>> to >>>> be >>>> a church member to use the centres; there you can order the microfilmed >>>> Barbados records (they will bring in the film from Salt Lake City) and >>>> you >>>> will have to wade through the baptismal/birth records in the hope of >>>> finding >>>> Olive's record. They charge a small fee for bringing in the films, but >>>> you >>>> can usually ask that they hold them for six months to give you time to >>>> do >>>> the search. >>>> >>>> If you are lucky enough to find it, and thus find her parents, you may >>>> be >>>> able to go back another generation, finding the marriage if any. You >>>> might >>>> then spot other children with the same parents as you go through the >>>> film. >>>> Since you know the year of birth that already helps you narrow the >>>> search; >>>> it would be helpful if you knew what Parish she was born in, but I >>>> would >>>> suggest that you start with St. Philip, St. Michael & St. George as >>>> being >>>> parishes where Gittens families tend to be concentrated. If that fails >>>> you >>>> can widen the search to other parishes. >>>> >>>> I already know of one Gittens family who moved from Barbados to >>>> Trinidad >>>> about the turn of the century, and it would be interestting if Olive >>>> turned >>>> out to be a member of that family! >>>> Good luck. >>>> >>>> Ernest M. Wiltshire >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: [email protected] >>>> [mailto:[email protected]] >>>> On Behalf Of Cindy Loadman >>>> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 7:29 AM >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Subject: Re: Gittens in Trinidad or elsewhere in the West Indies >>>> She was born in October 1896 in Barbados. She moved to Trinidad as a >>>> little >>>> girl (I don't know what age). She moved to California at some stage in >>>> her >>>> later life, and died there in August 1981. >>>> >>>> No virus found in this outgoing message. >>>> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >>>> Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.7/1232 - Release Date: >>>> 1/18/2008 >>>> 7:32 PM >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

They are so efficient, I'm also sure that they will make a public announcement. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alba Dunlop" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 9:04 PM Subject: Re: Gittens in Barbados > This is wonderful news about not having to order microfilm or fiche from > the > Mormon Family Centre. Does anybody know when this will all come about. I > always hoped that this would happen. > > Alba > Dunlop > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Phillip Abbott - Abbott Farms" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 12:56 PM > Subject: Re: Gittens in Barbados > > >> That is great news . >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "callaloo" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 12:26 PM >> Subject: Re: Gittens in Barbados >> >> >>> The Mormons are also updating their files so that you will not have to >>> order >>> microfilm or microfiche. You will be able to get all the information >>> online. >>> They are testing the program now. >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Ernest M. Wiltshire" <[email protected]> >>> To: <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 9:56 AM >>> Subject: RE: Gittens in Barbados >>> >>> >>>> Cindy,Unfortunately your ggm's birth in 1896 wil not show up in the IGI >>>> (The International Genealogical Index); in fact I have already checked. >>>> But >>>> you can most likely find it on the microfilmed Barbados Records. I >>>> don't >>>> recognise the name Goin, but it might be familiar to others on this >>>> List. >>>> >>>> I'm not sure where you live, but if you are in any sizable city you >>>> should >>>> be able to find an LDS (Mormon) Family History Centre. You don't have >>>> to >>>> be >>>> a church member to use the centres; there you can order the microfilmed >>>> Barbados records (they will bring in the film from Salt Lake City) and >>>> you >>>> will have to wade through the baptismal/birth records in the hope of >>>> finding >>>> Olive's record. They charge a small fee for bringing in the films, but >>>> you >>>> can usually ask that they hold them for six months to give you time to >>>> do >>>> the search. >>>> >>>> If you are lucky enough to find it, and thus find her parents, you may >>>> be >>>> able to go back another generation, finding the marriage if any. You >>>> might >>>> then spot other children with the same parents as you go through the >>>> film. >>>> Since you know the year of birth that already helps you narrow the >>>> search; >>>> it would be helpful if you knew what Parish she was born in, but I >>>> would >>>> suggest that you start with St. Philip, St. Michael & St. George as >>>> being >>>> parishes where Gittens families tend to be concentrated. If that fails >>>> you >>>> can widen the search to other parishes. >>>> >>>> I already know of one Gittens family who moved from Barbados to >>>> Trinidad >>>> about the turn of the century, and it would be interestting if Olive >>>> turned >>>> out to be a member of that family! >>>> Good luck. >>>> >>>> Ernest M. Wiltshire >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: [email protected] >>>> [mailto:[email protected]] >>>> On Behalf Of Cindy Loadman >>>> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 7:29 AM >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Subject: Re: Gittens in Trinidad or elsewhere in the West Indies >>>> She was born in October 1896 in Barbados. She moved to Trinidad as a >>>> little >>>> girl (I don't know what age). She moved to California at some stage in >>>> her >>>> later life, and died there in August 1981. >>>> >>>> No virus found in this outgoing message. >>>> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >>>> Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.7/1232 - Release Date: >>>> 1/18/2008 >>>> 7:32 PM >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Alba, don't get your hopes up too soon. Digitizing and posting all the microfilms is going to take some time. The last estimate I heard was several years to digitize the films and they have to get permission from the record holders to post them on the Internet. They are also getting volunteers to sign up as indexers so when they post them they will be searchable. Anyone can sign up to do as much or as little indexing as they have time for. The details and signup site is at http://www.familysearchindexing.org . After you sign up you look through the kinds of records they are currently working on and select which ones you want to help with. Then when you have a few minutes you go to your computer and the program downloads the images and you type the names and data into a spreadsheet-like form and upload it all. You can do as much or as little as you have time for and if you don't get that batch finished, whatever you have done is uploaded and the program sorts out the unfinished part and puts that back in the collection for someone else to finish. They have already completed several big projects and you can see the results now on http://www.familysearchlabs.org/ under Record Search. That's a website where the LDS Church posts new things they are doing in FH. But for some time still, we are going to be looking at microfilms and fiche at Family History Centres. And due to copyright reasons, some of the films won't ever be posted on the Internet and can only be used at FHC's. Elder Snow At 03:04 AM 1/20/2008, Alba Dunlop wrote: >This is wonderful news about not having to order microfilm or fiche from the >Mormon Family Centre. Does anybody know when this will all come about. I >always hoped that this would happen. > >Alba >Dunlop >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Phillip Abbott - Abbott Farms" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 12:56 PM >Subject: Re: Gittens in Barbados > > > > That is great news . > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "callaloo" <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 12:26 PM > > Subject: Re: Gittens in Barbados > > > > > >> The Mormons are also updating their files so that you will not have to > >> order > >> microfilm or microfiche. You will be able to get all the information > >> online. > >> They are testing the program now. > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Ernest M. Wiltshire" <[email protected]> > >> To: <[email protected]> > >> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 9:56 AM > >> Subject: RE: Gittens in Barbados > >> > >> > >>> Cindy,Unfortunately your ggm's birth in 1896 wil not show up in the IGI > >>> (The International Genealogical Index); in fact I have already checked. > >>> But > >>> you can most likely find it on the microfilmed Barbados Records. I don't > >>> recognise the name Goin, but it might be familiar to others on this > >>> List. > >>> > >>> I'm not sure where you live, but if you are in any sizable city you > >>> should > >>> be able to find an LDS (Mormon) Family History Centre. You don't have > >>> to > >>> be > >>> a church member to use the centres; there you can order the microfilmed > >>> Barbados records (they will bring in the film from Salt Lake City) and > >>> you > >>> will have to wade through the baptismal/birth records in the hope of > >>> finding > >>> Olive's record. They charge a small fee for bringing in the films, but > >>> you > >>> can usually ask that they hold them for six months to give you time to > >>> do > >>> the search. > >>> > >>> If you are lucky enough to find it, and thus find her parents, you may > >>> be > >>> able to go back another generation, finding the marriage if any. You > >>> might > >>> then spot other children with the same parents as you go through the > >>> film. > >>> Since you know the year of birth that already helps you narrow the > >>> search; > >>> it would be helpful if you knew what Parish she was born in, but I would > >>> suggest that you start with St. Philip, St. Michael & St. George as > >>> being > >>> parishes where Gittens families tend to be concentrated. If that fails > >>> you > >>> can widen the search to other parishes. > >>> > >>> I already know of one Gittens family who moved from Barbados to Trinidad > >>> about the turn of the century, and it would be interestting if Olive > >>> turned > >>> out to be a member of that family! > >>> Good luck. > >>> > >>> Ernest M. Wiltshire > >>> > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> From: [email protected] > >>> [mailto:[email protected]] > >>> On Behalf Of Cindy Loadman > >>> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 7:29 AM > >>> To: [email protected] > >>> Subject: Re: Gittens in Trinidad or elsewhere in the West Indies > >>> She was born in October 1896 in Barbados. She moved to Trinidad as a > >>> little > >>> girl (I don't know what age). She moved to California at some stage in > >>> her > >>> later life, and died there in August 1981. > >>> > >>> No virus found in this outgoing message. > >>> Checked by AVG Free Edition. > >>> Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.7/1232 - Release Date: > >>> 1/18/2008 > >>> 7:32 PM > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> ------------------------------- > >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Elder Donald R. Snow, England London Mission Hyde Park Family History Centre, http://www.hydeparkfhc.org Retired Professor of Mathematics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah; [email protected]