To those who are unaware that the Family History Library in Salt Lake City has many published family histories, and certainly a good many pertaining to Germanna descendants, may I suggest you do some surname searching on the Family History Library Catalog. Most, but not all, the surnames of the Germanna colonists are uncommon enough in this country for you do a fairly good search. You may have to misspell the name, such as Huffman - lots of variants!!! Go to _www.familysearch.org_ (http://www.familysearch.org) This website has recently been remodeled. Look in the tool bar [or whatever nerds call it] for Library. Click on that. At the bottom of the list is *Catalog* Click on that. There will be several choices, including *Key Word*--which is not always efficient. But *Surname* is a place to start for Germanna names. A good many of these volumes/manuscripts have been filmed. You can order these films to a FHC near your home. If you are NOT near an FHC, then you can use a FORM which is on the same website, called *Request for Photocopy*. For a fee, the Library will send you copies of the index of a certain book--in most cases. Then you can order photocopies of the pages which interest you. There will be a fee, of course, but it is not exorbitant!!! (Genealogy is not the same as owning a yacht!) Lots of armchair genealogists use this route. And even those who are still young enough--and have good credit for flying--use this method. Just a hint to those who are not familiar with the great resources of the FH Library. E.W.Wallace PS Those of you who have access to HeritageQuest through your local public library can do a Book search for Holtzclaw and turn up several of his books. Reading books on the internet is not the best way, but, we all have to change with the times!!! Also try Willis N. Kemper!!! **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020)

People should also be aware of inter-library loan. I find this preferable to LDS because of the possibility of getting a bound copy rather than microfilm. I would use the Family History catalog to get titles - there is some description which can help you decide which Family History study you want under any given surname. Copy the title and author and take that information to your local public librarian. The librarian will then look it up on what is called World Cat (or OCLC) and can request it for you. Sometimes libraries will not loan these, but usually there will be a library that will to that. Again, your local librarian will find all of this out for you. -----Original Message----- From: germanna_colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:germanna_colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Hdanw@aol.com Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 2:54 PM To: GERMANNA_COLONIES-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [GERMANNA] Trying to Locate Family Histories Which May Have BeenPublished To those who are unaware that the Family History Library in Salt Lake City has many published family histories, and certainly a good many pertaining to Germanna descendants, may I suggest you do some surname searching on the Family History Library Catalog. Most, but not all, the surnames of the Germanna colonists are uncommon enough in this country for you do a fairly good search. You may have to misspell the name, such as Huffman - lots of variants!!! Go to _www.familysearch.org_ (http://www.familysearch.org) This website has recently been remodeled. Look in the tool bar [or whatever nerds call it] for Library. Click on that. At the bottom of the list is *Catalog* Click on that. There will be several choices, including *Key Word*--which is not always efficient. But *Surname* is a place to start for Germanna names. A good many of these volumes/manuscripts have been filmed. You can order these films to a FHC near your home. If you are NOT near an FHC, then you can use a FORM which is on the same website, called *Request for Photocopy*. For a fee, the Library will send you copies of the index of a certain book--in most cases. Then you can order photocopies of the pages which interest you. There will be a fee, of course, but it is not exorbitant!!! (Genealogy is not the same as owning a yacht!) Lots of armchair genealogists use this route. And even those who are still young enough--and have good credit for flying--use this method. Just a hint to those who are not familiar with the great resources of the FH Library. E.W.Wallace PS Those of you who have access to HeritageQuest through your local public library can do a Book search for Holtzclaw and turn up several of his books. Reading books on the internet is not the best way, but, we all have to change with the times!!! Also try Willis N. Kemper!!! **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANNA_COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message