>A dream coming true. The Family History Library is starting to
digitize
>their book holdings, mostly family histories to date, and they
are putting them
>on-line, fully search able by any word or advanced search
combinations.
> Five thousand plus of these books are on the Brigham Young
University
>Library servers and readily accessible, NOW!
>Here is a partial clip of an announcement I just received and
I have only
>made a quick check of how to find them and how to search, but
it is very
> exciting
>"The LDS Family History Library has announced that it has
begun the process
>of digitizing and making available on the Internet all of the
Family History
>books in their collection. These are primarily books in the
"929.273Series"
>that are currently housed on the first floor of the Family
History Library
>(previously housed on the fourth floor of the Joseph Smith
Memorial Building).
> At the present time (September 2005), about 5000 books have
been digitized
>and are available, and they have announced that they are
adding about 100
>titles a week to the on-line collection. Copyright issues are
playing a role in
>determining the order in which they progress through this
task; books out of
>copyright are being done first."
>Go to the web site of the Harold B. Lee Library at BYU
>at
http://www.lib.byu.edu/ , then on the home page, follow the
links:Find Other Materials;
>Electronic; On Line Collections at BYU; Text Collections tab;
Family History Archive
>from the list of collections that are displayed. The search box
on the left
>seems to be he one to find your books at and the search box on
the right is
>for searching within the pages on screen.