I tell you, this is the greatest thing since white bread!!! Already I've found what I THINK are GLENN ancestors from N.C. Time consuming, but may be very rewarding. Thanks a whole bunch. Lou Nell HUTCHISON Bath ----- Original Message ----- From: <Pamandgar@aol.com> To: <MORIPLEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 6:14 PM Subject: [MORIPLEY] LDS News - books on-line!! > Genealogy cousin sent this to me today - sounds sooo interesting. Hope it > rains rest of week so I can sit and check it out. > Pam Smith > > You can go to the Brigham Young University website http://www.lib.byu.edu/ > and do searches of over 5000 books which the Family History Library has put > online.* ... 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 "929.273 Series" that are > currently housed on the first floor of the Family History Library. 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. > > As these Family History books are digitized and placed on-line, an entry is > being placed in the Family History Library on-line catalog with a hyperlink > to the digitized image. By going to the FHL On-Line Catalog, you can search > for a specific name, find a book that has been indexed using the name, and > view it on-line, flipping through the pages as separate "pdf" images, much > the same as if you were on the first floor of the Family History Library. = > > Of course, the indexing that is available through the FHL Catalog is only > as good as the human indexers made it; typically they only include the "top" > 4 to 6 names that appear in each book in their indexing efforts. But there > is even better news! > > The digitized images of these Family History books are actually being > stored on the electronic servers at Brigham Young University in Provo, > Utah. > > By going directly to the BYU web site to view the images, there are several > additional possibilities that provide genealogists functionality that they > have never had before. You are now able to do full-text searches on each > book, and on every digitized book in the collection. Now you can locate the > small two-paragraph entry on Grandpa Ebenezer McGarrah that is buried in one > of the Family History books that you would have otherwise never thought to > look at before. This can open up a huge new possibility for extending lines, > getting past brick walls, and uncovering new relatives!= > > > How to Find The Digitized Images? > > Go to the web site of the Harold B. Lee Library at BYU at > http://www.lib.byu.edu/ on their home page, follow the links "Find Other > Materials/Electronic/On Line Collections at BYU". Click on the "Text > Collections" tab and select the "Family History Archive" from the list of > collections that are displayed. > (Direct link: http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/) > > You would then normally want to use the "Search All" feature with the > "Search Full Text" box checked, although the "Advanced Search" will allow > very high-powered searches that will allow certain phrases to be searched > for and other words to be used to exclude potential hits. As you make > selections from the "hits" that are displayed, you will need to use the > "Click Here to View Item" button near the top of the screen to display the > actual image of the page. You can page through the entire document using the > index displayed on the left side of the screen. Each page may be printed > after being viewed. > > One interesting sidelight is, when you are at the first web page for the > Family History Archive (the page that lets you begin a search), click on > the "Browse the Collection" button. This will display every Family History > book that has been digitized and is available in the collection. > > You can scroll through this list much the same as if you were walking up > and down the stacks at the library. At the top of the first page of the > search results, it displays the number of hits, which (in this case) is the > number of books in the collection. If you keep track of this number, you can > get a pretty good idea of how fast they are adding titles to the collection > as you revisit the web site from time to time. I think you will want to > visit this site often as the collection grows!" > > > ==== MORIPLEY Mailing List ==== > To Subscribe to MoRipley GenWeb > mailto:MORIPLEY-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=subscribe&body=subscribe > mailto:MORIPLEY-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=subscribe&body=subscribe > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. 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