Ken Titt has sent along a couple of pieces of info on websites. Thanks, Ken. I looked over the Texas History site, found another leading off to a separate TX page that offers TX postcards, if anyone might want to see that part. It's at http://www.virtualtexan.com/ Here's Ken's submissions: http://www.usgennet.org/~alhntxus/prolog.html and a piece of info he passes along. Think we mentioned it the other day, but my brain cells forget. The second piece was re the LDS site update. Pay particular attention to the warning not to download any of the gedcoms directly into your genealogy program database. It can sure mess one up, if you find later you don't want it. Every single person you had in that download gedcom would have to be hand removed! Big chore. So, do put any downloads into their own new file, like it says...bj: Subject: LDS site update Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 05:55:46 -0600 From: "Gary F. Presson" <g_presson@juno.com> Reply-To: ks-kin-l@raven.cc.ukans.edu To: ks-kin-l@raven.cc.ukans.edu The following article is from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright 1999 by Richard W. Eastman. It is re-published here with the permission of the author. ============================================================ - FamilySearch.org Updated The very popular LDS FamilySearch.org Web site has a few new capabilities. Visitors to the site can now search by: * Event (All, Birth/Christening, Marriage, Death/Burial, Other) * Year Range (None, Exact Year, + or - 2 years, + or - 5 years, + or -10 years, + or - 20 years) * Specific Year * Countries (All Countries or select one from list) * State * Ancestral File Number (AFN) * An option to search for only exact spellings Other recent changes include the ability to download a GEDCOM from Ancestral File search results. This allows users to import information directly into their own genealogy software. (Never import such data into your primary database! Always create a new, empty database and import into that. Once you have examined the quality of the new data, you may decide to import it into your primary database.) The FamilySearch.org Web site also has over 43,000 new and updated titles added to the Family History Library Catalog. There are new Pedigree Resource disks and collaboration lists available as well. Full details are available at: http://www.familysearch.org/whats_new.asp