The address given below may or may not duplicate those previously posted for the subject site. In this morning's Houston Chronicle, in the weekly genealogy column by our local researcher and book store owner Mic Barnette, Mic gives the address of the new LDS site as http://www.familysearch.org/default.asp. I reached it without problems and made a test search. The site prominently features the disclaimer that it is a test site and may be absent or slow at times. Mic Barnette made the following points in this column: -The site contains several databases, including Ancestral File, Family History Catalogue, IGI, family surname websites, Family Search, and a Pedigree Resource File. -Some of the objectives of the website are to encourage researchers to contact each other, exchange information, build international databases and correct information found in existing databases (!). -It is common to find multiple database entries for the same individual or family, which disagree as to dates, etc. Every researcher should verify his/her research data. -The results of Family Search may contain hyperlinks to Internet websites registered on the family search program. Many hits thus found are false because the search engine found a single name (given or surname), and didn't properly hit on complete names. -The home page of Family Search allows one to search for a person by first name and last name, in conjunction with the person's spouse. The search results displayed (if any!) may be viewed through hyperlinks. Clicking on different buttons may display the person's pedigree, family group sheet, a family surname website, or the address of other researchers of the same surname. (I note that a search provides for entry of first and last name of individual, first and last names of father and mother of individual, and of spouse of individual. If all this data is available and entered, presumably the search should be very specific. I note futher that provision for entry of middle names or initials, and of time frames, would make it even more specific.) -The Family History Library sells some of the databases incorporated in the database in their online bookstore. The website contains a link to the bookstore. Ode Carlisle