Here is an exciting announcement that I recently put on my BLOG. Check out my website and BLOG site for current happenings in UpstateNew York Genealogy.Dick Hillenbrand website: www.ny-genes.comblog: http://ny-genes.blogspot.com/ LDS Digitizing Books, on-line NOW at BYU !!! Oh BOY, here we go! A dream coming true. The Family History Library is starting todigitize their book holdings, mostly family histories to date, andthey are putting them on-line, fully search able by any word oradvanced search combinations. Five thousand plus of these books are on the Brigham Young UniversityLibrary servers and readily accessible, NOW! Here is a partial clip of an announcement I just received and I haveonly made a quick check of how to find them and how to search, but itis very exciting "…the LDS Family History Library has announced that it has begun theprocess of digitizing and making available on the Internet all of theFamily History books in their collection. These are primarily books inthe "929.273Series" that are currently housed on the first floor ofthe Family History Library (previously housed on the fourth floor ofthe Joseph Smith Memorial Building). At the present time (September2005), about 5000 books have been digitized and are available, andthey have announced that they are adding about 100 titles a week tothe on-line collection. Copyright issues are playing a role indetermining the order in which they progress through this task; booksout of copyright are being done first." Go to the web site of the Harold B. Lee Library at BYU athttp://www.lib.byu.edu/ , then on the home page, follow the links:Find Other Materials; Electronic; On Line Collections at BYU; TextCollections tab; Family History Archive from the list of collectionsthat are displayed. The search box on the left seems to be he one tofind your books at and the search box on the right is for searchingwithin the pages on screen. I have not used it enough yet to be proficient, but you bet I'll bechecking this little treasure out, a lot!--Dick Hillenbrand website: www.ny-genes.comblog: http://ny-genes.blogspot.com/