LIBRARY OF CONGRESS TO DIGITIZE GENEALOGY BOOKS The Library of Congress just announced that it has received 2 million from the Alfred P. Sloan foundation to digitize thousands of books. Among those to be digitized are "U.S. genealogy and regimental histories. The former includes many useful county, state, and regional histories, while the latter includes histories, memoirs, diaries and other collections from the Civil War period." Read the whole press release at _http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2007/07-020.html_ (http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2007/07-020.html)