In a message dated 9/11/05 6:00:45 AM, IALUCAS-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > This is good news for those of us who use the LDS records for family > research. They are planning a massive undertaking to make all of their > records > available via internet ... free. > The downside of all of this activity is that the LDS has nearly stopped new filming, and has laid off all of the professional genealogists at the Library and the local centers. This is according to a friend who was a professional on the staff of the West Los Angeles FHC, the largest LDS library outside of Salt Lake City. So it will be harder to get help interpreting old handwriting at the foreign desks in Salt Lake City, among other things. (I wonder who wil read and interpret all of those old foreign documents when they do the digitization?) Dave Werts