I think it would be wonderful if they could just put the index (if it has an index) on the internet. Then everyone could find what person and what page and just email the submitter for information on that specific person. Just another thought "Quiet" Robby McCain >From WEST-L-request@rootsweb.com Tue Jan 26 11:28:42 1999 >Received: from [204.212.38.30] by hotmail.com (1.1) with SMTP id MHotMailB877626422FC7D1017079CCD4261E0FA80; Tue Jan 26 11:28:42 1999 >Received: (from slist@localhost) > by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA20524; > Tue, 26 Jan 1999 11:17:37 -0800 (PST) >Resent-Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 11:17:37 -0800 (PST) >Delivered-To: fixup-WEST-L@rootsweb.com@fixme >Message-ID: <36AE25F4.290B5AD3@slkc.uswest.net> >Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 12:30:46 -0800 >From: "Paul W. West" <paulwest@uswest.net> >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (Win16; I) >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Old-To: Dale West <dwest@banet.net> >Old-CC: WEST-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [WEST-L] West Family Register >References: <36AE064D.F9A637A5@banet.net> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Resent-Message-ID: <"NKN8k.A.gAF.PThr2"@bl-14.rootsweb.com> >To: WEST-L@rootsweb.com >Resent-From: WEST-L@rootsweb.com >X-Mailing-List: <WEST-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/1774 >X-Loop: WEST-L@rootsweb.com >Precedence: list >Resent-Sender: WEST-L-request@rootsweb.com > >FYI: > >The West Family Register has also been microfilmed. You can find it for free >in many of the family history libraries throughout the country. I also found >a hardbound copy (original) in the family history library on the Brigham >Young University campus in Provo, Utah. Now don't everyone rush to ask me to >look stuff up for you. I don't live in Provo, Utah, and I have a hard time >getting to the nearby family history library. Sorry. > >But, I wonder if there would be any copyright violations if someone decided >to reprint the book on the WEB? Anyone want to tackle that issue? > >Just a thought, Paul West > > >Dale West wrote: > >> I have been looking for a book, "The West Family Register", by Letta B. >> Stone. I understand if you own just one book on West genealogy, this is >> the one. I just received several DAR applications on my West line and >> this book was referenced several times in each application. The book >> traces West lines from 1326 to 1928 and is 493 pages. >> >> The book is out of print and I would imagine some of you already have it >> but for the newer list subscribers, today I found a company in Salem, >> Massachusetts that reproduces the book in paper back or hard bound. The >> paperback edition is $77 and for $10 more dollars you can get the hard >> bound edition. >> >> They have lots of other surname genealogy books as well as a few other >> West family books. You can go to their web page for telephone, fax, >> address and ordering information as well as a database of all the >> genealogy books they sell. http://www.higginsonbooks.com/ >> >> I don't want this to sound like an endorsement or advertisement, it is >> not. There are probably a number of places to order this book, I just >> happened to find them after searching for a few days for the book. I >> have no affiliation with the Higginson Book Co., just a happy >> genealogist to have the book I have been looking for. >> -- >> Dale West >> e-mail: dwest@banet.net >> Visit the WestFamily Genealogy web site - >> http://westfamily.genealogy.org >> >> ==== WEST Mailing List ==== >> To unsubscribe sent a post to <WEST-L-request@rootsweb.com> >> Type UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. >> For Digest substitute the letter D for the L in the address. > > >==== WEST Mailing List ==== >Your donation to Rootsweb makes WEST-L possible. > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com