FamilySearch.org has been online for 12 or more years. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 5:11 PM Subject: [NORCAL] New Family Search web site Hi, Today a friend told me about the new Family Search web site: _https://www.familysearch.org/_ (https://www.familysearch.org/) I was not aware of its existence until today. I was playing with it and discovered something strange. I have submitted 11 books to the Family History Library. 6 of them were submitted in digital form on a disc. The other 5 were submitted book form. Those in digital form have always been available to read online, the others were available in book form at the FHL or on microfilm. Today I discovered that the very first book I created and sent to the FHL in book form has been digitized and can be read online. However, it show up only on the new web site and can be found by using only one search method. Using another search method on the new site will not bring it up. Long story short, if you are searching for books from a particular author on the new site mentioned above, try your search in several different ways to be sure you have found all the books that can be read online. Ken Tessendorff
The "new" site has only been up for a year or two. Peggy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ronald Colby Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 6:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NORCAL] New Family Search web site FamilySearch.org has been online for 12 or more years. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 5:11 PM Subject: [NORCAL] New Family Search web site Hi, Today a friend told me about the new Family Search web site: _https://www.familysearch.org/_ (https://www.familysearch.org/) I was not aware of its existence until today. I was playing with it and discovered something strange. I have submitted 11 books to the Family History Library. 6 of them were submitted in digital form on a disc. The other 5 were submitted book form. Those in digital form have always been available to read online, the others were available in book form at the FHL or on microfilm. Today I discovered that the very first book I created and sent to the FHL in book form has been digitized and can be read online. However, it show up only on the new web site and can be found by using only one search method. Using another search method on the new site will not bring it up. Long story short, if you are searching for books from a particular author on the new site mentioned above, try your search in several different ways to be sure you have found all the books that can be read online. Ken Tessendorff ----------------------------------------- NORCAL ARCHIVES: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ Enter NORCAL. Browse by month. Or click the "Search all archives" link to search by keyword. ----------------------------------------- To post a message to the NORCAL mailing list, send an email to [email protected] ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message