This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------8E948E6AC05FDD363001CAD0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Just wanted to pass this on Wanda Hester Hammond --------------8E948E6AC05FDD363001CAD0 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from mail6.bellsouth.net (mail6.bellsouth.net [205.152.96.6]) by mail.jax (8.8.8-spamdog/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA00113 for <shamm@jax.bellsouth.net>; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 17:04:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (bl-14.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.30]) by mail6.bellsouth.net (8.8.8-spamdog/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA05621; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 17:04:47 -0500 (EST) Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA17961; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 14:06:05 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 14:06:05 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <000601be6835$f403d5c0$2a255c18@oemcomputer.nycap.rr.com> Reply-To: "linda Hodge" <lhodge1@nycap.rr.com> From: "linda Hodge" <lhodge1@nycap.rr.com> Old-To: <Hodges-L@Rootsweb.com> Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 17:00:54 -0800 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Subject: [HODGES-L] Fw: [NCROOTS-L] LDS Announcement Resent-Message-ID: <"LIDjQ.A.bYE.Nba42"@bl-14.rootsweb.com> To: HODGES-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: HODGES-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <HODGES-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/7145 X-Loop: HODGES-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: HODGES-L-request@rootsweb.com -----Original Message----- From: Barbara Farthing Bonham <msb@myfamily.org> To: NCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com <NCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, March 06, 1999 1:59 PM Subject: [NCROOTS-L] LDS Announcement >3.38 p.m. ET (2039 GMT) March 6, 1999 > > SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church says it will put at least some > of its family-history archive — the world's largest — on the World Wide >Web. > > The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints posted a statement >about the > plan on its official Web site, www.lds.org, on Friday. > > One leader last year said the church has archived the names of 13 >billion people > from 110 countries. > > "There are millions and millions of records just in their International >Genealogy > Index alone, and millions more in their ancestral files, and both of >those are > electronic databases,'' Karen Clifford, president and chief executive >officer of > Geneaological Research Associates, said in Saturday editions of The >Salt Lake > Tribune. > > The church said it is posting the information as a service that will >greatly enhance > the way people trace their family history. A formal announcement is >expected in > the spring or summer. > > The Mormon church has been involved in genealogy since its founding >nearly 170 > years ago. The church amasses the records for its so-called baptism of >the dead. > Mormons believe that such baptisms give the dead the opportunity to >join the > Mormon church in the afterlife. > > >-- >Barbara Farthing Bonham >Summerville SC >Proud Supporter of Rootsweb > > > >==== NCROOTS Mailing List ==== >NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political >announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, >etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal >and exclusion from this mailing list. Spam crashes our servers and we have >to take a stand. For comments or list administration questions,please >Barbara Farthing Bonham msb@myfamily.org > > ==== HODGES Mailing List ==== Have you forgotten how to unsub? Send a message to HODGES-L-request@rootsweb.com Put one word in the body of the message: Unsubscribe --------------8E948E6AC05FDD363001CAD0--