The following new message has been added to the Williams Genealogy board under the new topic of New reference site... -------------------------------- I received this from the NEHGS newsletter today and thought it might be helpful. I've checked out the site and as the article says, it's pretty cumbersome to use if you look at it page by page. I found the answer for me was to click the "printable version" and download the document. Then you can move thru it like any .pdf file. Research Recommendations BYU Family History Archives Online by Michael J. Leclerc Brigham Young University has been working for several years to create a library of compiled genealogies and make it available for free over the internet. The BYU Family History Archives is a collaborative project between the Harold B. Lee library of BYU, LDS Business College, BYU Idaho, BYU Hawaii, the Church History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the Family History Library. These groups have come together to make thousands of volumes available at http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/. The books are available as searchable PDF files, so you must have Adobe Acrobate Reader, Preview, or another PDF file viewer installed on your computer in order to read the books. Searching the books is a two-step process. First, you are brought to a page that searches the catalog of books available in the online library. You can search by surname, author, or title. You can also search all fields concurrently. This brings up a list of books that have been digitized by the library. The results fields are Title, Creator, Subject, and Description. Results can be sorted on any of these fields. The title and creator are linked to images of the book. Clicking on either of those links will open a new window. This window contains a table of contents pane on the left and a pane with images of the original pages on the right. The book should open to the search results, but doesnt always. It is sometimes necessary to perform a search within this window for the name you are researching. Unfortunately the PDF search functionality to find a name within a page seems to be disabled. You must read through the page looking for the name. Other PDF functions are also disabled. For example, the previous page and next page arrows at the bottom of the window do not work. You can move through the book, however, by clicking on the page numbers in the table of contents pane on the left of the window. You can save images of pages or print them out. The results fields are the same fields you will find in the Family History Library Catalog. This was done intentionally as these books are now linked into the FHLC. When searching the catalog online, books that are in the Family History Archive show the following link in the catalog entry: To view a digital version of this book click here. The BYU Family History Archives is a great tool for genealogists, especially if you do not have ready access to a large genealogical library. Because you can search the books for names, the online versions may be even better than the paper originals, which sometimes had incomplete indexes or no index at all.