Thanks Dick! J ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dick Hillenbrand" <nygenes@gmail.com> To: <NYGREENE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 10:27 PM Subject: [GREENE COUNTY] LDS Digitizing Books, on-line NOW at BYU !!! > 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/ > > > ==== NYGREENE Mailing List ==== > 1850 federal census for Prattsville and Windham fully transcribed! Come > check us out! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygreen2 > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >