Thanks Janice, for the LDS website news. Won't this be fantastic. Can't wait. If you find out more, please let us know. I understand that the Eastman's Newsletter has something about it. Their site is supposed to be http://www.ancestry.com/columns/eastman/eastnew/htm. But, it wasn't lit up in blue, so there may have been an error on ancestry when they wrote it out. Maybe just putting it in the search will get it. Bobbie >From: "Janice G. Donley" <jdonley@bellatlantic.net> >Reply-To: OHJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com >To: OHJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: LDS new web site >Date: Tue, 9 Mar 99 13:50:54 -0500 > >More news about the new LDS web site > >A quote from CNNNews: > >March 8, 1999 >Web posted at: 2:02 p.m. EST (1902 GMT) > > (CNN) -- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says it will >make its collection of >genealogical records - the world's largest - available on the World Wide >Web. > > A statement about the plan was posted on the church's official Web site >on Friday saying that a beta test of the new Web site will begin in March >or April. A formal announcement of the finished site is expected by late >spring or summer. >> >One leader last year said the church has archived the names of 13 billion >people from 110 countries. "There are millions and millions of records >just in their International Genealogy Index alone, and millions more in >their ancestral files, and both of those are electronic databases," Karen >Clifford, president and chief executive officer > of Genealogical Research Associates, said in Saturday editions of The >Salt Lake Tribune. >> >The church said it is posting the information as a service to help people >trace >their family history. The genealogy files are currently available to the >public >through a system of 3,200 Family History Centers around the world. >> > The church, commonly known as the "Mormon" church, has been involved >in genealogy since its founding nearly 170 years ago. The church gathers >the records for proxy ordinances performed in its temples. Mormons >believe that people need such ordinances in the afterlife. >> >The Associated Press contributed to this report. >> > > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com