For those interested in British Records: CROSSING THE POND A new pay-per-view Web site for British records is in its final testing phase and will launch Dec. 9, according to site spokesperson Charles Murdoch. Familyrelatives.org (http://www.familyrelatives.org) will offer more than 300 million General Register Office (GRO) records of birth, marriage and death indexes for England and Wales. Transcriptions of more than 150 million records from 1866 to 1920 will be fully searchable by surname, first name, district or area, year and depending upon the period, by mother's maiden name, spouses name, date of birth and age at death. Transcriptions of records for 1921 to 1983 are searchable on surname and first name. Sixty credits, called units, cost $10; visitors will spend one to four credits to access a record. The 1837 to 2002 indexes also are available from 1837Online.com (http://www.1837online.com)--you can view, save and print up to 50 pages of images for about $9. The subscription site BMD Index (http://www.bmdindex.co.uk) has the index, too, as well as birth records from 1880. A year's access costs about $28. The indexes on both sites are searchable by first and last name. *** Reprinted with permission from Family Tree Magazine Email Update, copyright 2004 F+W Publications Inc. To subscribe to this free weekly e-mail newsletter, go to http://www.familytreemagazine.com/newsletter.asp. For a free sample copy of the print Family Tree Magazine, America's #1 family history magazine, go to http://www.familytreemagazine.com/specialoffers.asp? FAMfreeissue *** Kind Regards, Karen from Ohio, USA