-----Original Message----- From: JCBrooks@aol.com <JCBrooks@aol.com> To: HANDCART-L@rootsweb.com <HANDCART-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, August 07, 1998 9:47 AM Subject: Re: [HANDCART-L] Answer on IGI >In a message dated 8/7/98 9:16:46 AM Pacific Daylight Time, >elainec@stinger.net writes: > ><< Do you > happen to have any idea when the next updated version of the Ancestral File >will > be out and available to use in the FHCs? I am actually a consultant in a FHC > here in Orem, Utah but have not been able to get any information on this as >yet. > Also, someone told me that the AF and IGI were available for purchase. Have >you > heard anything about this at all? Just thought I would check. ;) >> > >I'm no expert.....but one brother just reported via this list that at the BYU >Genealogy Conference they said first quarter of 1999 that a new AF would come >out....but you know how they are always delayed on those things. > >About the AF for purchase....I doubt that will happen....I think that there >were too many unhappy campers after they extracted the Holocaust >victims....some non LDS have vehement objections to temple work being done and >IGI might be a poke in the nose to them. Also, by having folks come to the >FHL, it is a missionary opportunity. But I'm no expert. > Actually Family Search can be purchased by family organizations, but the cost is around $500. Family Search is now available through other libraries. The New England Historical and Genealogical Society has it in their library. The difference is that the LDS options (Ordinance Index) are not included so that non-members organizations do not have to deal with questions about temple work and LDS doctrines. The IGI on fiche has been available for purchase for many years by anyone. Karen Bush vkbush@dcaccess.com