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. I think there were beta copies of some of these distributed for testing, and discussion of sales, but it never happened....probably got nixed at the GA level. Michele