Pilot site can be gotten should you forget from the usual familysearch.org but the direct URL http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#start and I do mean lots of treasures <G> Eliz On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Marge Yetzke <[email protected]> wrote: > What is the address?  i can't find it? > > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Eliz Hanebury <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> They have so kept their word! Some of it might have been avaliable >> from old familysearch.org but WOW it is so much easier, I am working >> my way thru Maine marriages and births and will then start on Arkansas >> There are so many new records the page looks red <G> >> >> And yes I am jumping up and down with glee, go take a look. >> >> >> Eliz >> >> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Rich Patton <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Ruth and all listers, >> > >> > According to the article in today's (4/29/10) Deseret News (companion >> > newspaper to the Salt Lake City Tribune): >> >      "Family Serach President Jay Verkler said 300 million MORE names >> > will be available online this week >> >      through the LDS Church's family history service.  We're going to do >> > it (the release) on a new website >> >      we're creating called beta.family search.org." >> > >> >      "The newly added records augment a few hundred million indexed >> > names already accessible on a previous FamilSearch website.  They come >> > largely from U.S. collections and from some parts of Europe.  Verkler said >> > the flow of names to the Web will continue as the LDS seeks to index all of >> > the 3.5 billion names stored on the microfilm in their mountain vault.  It >> > will take about 10 years to index all the records, a task previously >> > projected to take more than a century to complete.'' >> > >> > Hope this helps. >> > >> > Rich in Utah >> > >> > >> > >> > ________________________________ >> > From: Ruth Susmarski <[email protected]> >> > To: Cook County <[email protected]> >> > Sent: Thu, April 29, 2010 12:07:53 PM >> > Subject: [COOK-CO-IL] LDS Beta & LDS-Pilot Sites >> > >> > Does anyone know if the new LDS-Beta site is meant to replace the >> > LDS-Labs pilot site?  Except for many more collections/records on the Beta >> > site, they seem redundant, or am I missing something? >> > >> > Ruth >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------- >> > 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 > >