I thought this might be of interest to other researchers. It was forwarded by someone in another one of my lists. > > LDS Church Press Release 12 Nov 1999 > > SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH -- FamilySearch.org, the world's largest online > genealogy site, will feature 240 million new names in its genealogy > database -- enabling users to access over 640 million total entries. > > Beginning Monday, November 22, the new addition-in itself bigger than > most genealogical databases on the web -- will represent > international data culled primarily from Western Europe, > Scandinavia,....... > >