In a message dated 11/8/2005 8:16:59 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, barrett@vaxxine.com writes: > Subject: LDS Digitizing Books, on-line NOW at BYU !!! > > >> A dream coming true. The Family History Library is starting to > digitize >> their book holdings, mostly family histories to date, and they > are putting them >> on-line, fully search able by any word or advanced search > combinations. >> Five thousand plus of these books are on the Brigham Young > University >> Library servers and readily accessible, NOW! >> Here is a partial clip of an announcement I just received and > I have only >> made a quick check of how to find them and how to search, but > it is very >> exciting >> "The LDS Family History Library has announced that it has > begun the process >> of digitizing and making available on the Internet all of the > Family History >> books in their collection. These are primarily books in the > "929.273Series" >> that are currently housed on the first floor of the Family > History Library >> (previously housed on the fourth floor of the Joseph Smith > Memorial Building). >> At the present time (September 2005), about 5000 books have > been digitized >> and are available, and they have announced that they are > adding about 100 >> titles a week to the on-line collection. Copyright issues are > playing a role in >> determining the order in which they progress through this > task; books out of >> copyright are being done first." >> Go to the web site of the Harold B. Lee Library at BYU >> at http://www.lib.byu.edu/ , then on the home page, follow the > links:Find Other Materials; >> Electronic; On Line Collections at BYU; Text Collections tab; > Family History Archive >> from the list of collections that are displayed. The search box > on the left >> seems to be he one to find your books at and the search box on > the right is >> for searching within the pages on screen.