From December's Federation of Family History Societies Ezine - [email protected] All change at the Genealogical Society of Utah The Genealogical Society of Utah (GSU) began microfilming British records in 1945, including civil registration indexes, census records, church records, probate records and other records useful for understanding and linking families. Nearly every major record office in the United Kingdom and Ireland has been assisted by the GSU in preserving and making records more accessible. The GSU's services are now expanded and improved, but will continue under a new name - FamilySearch Records Access. FamilySearch is working hard to convert its millions of microfilms to digital formats and replacing its hundreds of film cameras with digital versions, to increase accessibility via the Internet. Additionally over one hundred thousand volunteer indexers from all over the globe are logging on to FamilySearchIndexing.org to index these records. The indexes are being linked to images of the original documents and are available online at www.FamilySearch.org, the record custodian's, or an affiliate's site. The Genealogical Society of Utah (GSU) doing business as FamilySearch is a non-profit organization sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. FamilySearch maintains the world's largest repository of genealogical resources and can be accessed at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah via any of its 4,500 family history centres worldwide or online through www.FamilySearch.org. Rosemary Northumberland UK Email: [email protected] Family History: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rprobert/ Banburyshire Website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~engcbanb/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~