From: fhn@everton.com To: history@everton.com Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 06:48:28 -0700 Subject: FHN: 11 November 1999 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) Sender: owner-history@everton.com EVERTON'S FAMILY HISTORY NEWSLINE Thursday, 11 November 1999 Get Help Online from the Family History SourceGuide The Family History Library and its predecessors have been in operation since the late 1800s, and over the years its staff has compiled a number of aids for genealogists. Part of their FamilySearch website features a number of these research helps as the "Family History SourceGuide". The SourceGuide is a collection of research papers, word lists, addresses of libraries, form letters, and other handy and informative publications that originally appeared in print, then on CD-ROM. Now they are freely available via the World Wide Web. The elements of the SourceGuide are arranged alphabetically by locality (state or country), then by topic, in a well-annotated table of contents that links directly to the individual research guides. Do you need the addresses of archives and libraries in Alaska? Information on the 1881 British census? Form letters to use when writing to parish priests in Germany? All those and more are part of the SourceGuide. There are research papers for each of the United States, for most of the European countries, and a general-purpose guide for many Latin American nations, but coverage of other parts of the world is noticeably smaller. Even so, the SourceGuide is useful for most American family historians. The old saying is that "you get what you pay for". But in the case of the SourceGuide that old saw is patently false. The research papers and other components are of the highest quality, and can be useful to you in your research time and again. Resource: The Family History SourceGuide http://www.familysearch.org/sg/ Copyright 1999, Everton Publishers All rights reserved