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    1. A (sort of) follow up on Maurine's information about LDS digitization of books
    2. djweber
    3. If you want to take a short cut directly to the work page and skip the click, click, click from the home page..... use < http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/ >. Remember, that this is a LIMITED INFORMATION site for now. The site is growing slowing starting with certain Family books from one section of the LDS files. These Family books may be well-published, well-known books available at most any genealogical library. These Family books may be privatedly-printed family books where the total number of prints were a copy for the author to keep, a couple for his relatives and a couple as gifts to accepting libraries. These Family books may be manuscripts of never-printed genealogies. The original may have been a print copy, may have been a Xerox-type copy, may have been a typed copy, may have been an old carbon copy, may have been an old Gestetner-type mimeograph machine copy. The books have been digitized by Optical Character Recognition (OCR); in addition to having only a small start available on-line, the text in those available books is only as correct as the research abilities of the original author and some of the text may be difficult to read from the OCR copy. Use the short cut to the search web page < http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/ >, do your searching by the available search offers but don't expect to find a miracle today. Maybe next week, next month or next year but probably not today. djweber [email protected]

    11/10/2005 10:31:25