Dear Mimi, Thank you. But I am looking for one list which has an excellent group of Acronyms, Abbreviations and a Glossary. It takes a long time to go to the great Google for each individual term. And, are you saying that the FHCs and the LDSs are not connected? I thought that some LDS locations have a FHC capability? I'm sorry if I mis-understood that there are FHC places that have no connections to the Church of LDS. Thanks again, Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 1:59 PM Subject: Re: [GFO] Acronyms, Abbreviations, Glossaries I just did a Google search for FHC and up popped FamilySearch.org and then Family History Centers. FHC is not really another name for LDS! FHC stands for Family History Centers, which we old timers used to know as "branch libraries." When they renamed the library in Salt Lake City the Family History Library, they also renamed the branch libraries. LDS stands for Latter Day Saints, which is actually an abbreviation of their name. The correct name is "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints" but, of course, with our propensity for acronyms, we had to shorten it! Mimi Stang