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Subject: !!!NEW UPDATE - IGI Search Facility now includes USA!!!
Dear Listers -
I am so pleased to be able to announce this news. An incredible thing has
happened for those searching for kindred connections in the USA. Our
terrifically wonderful Hugh Wallis has done it again!!! Yes, you can now
search the IGI by town, county and state with only a surname... What was
done for the UK has graciously been extended to US records by harnessing
the information so lovingly put together by the LDS.
Use this new search feature here:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm
Hugh, we salute you! Your philanthropic work is a gift we appreciate.
Best wishes to all,
Dawn Perry-Taft
Central Coast, CA
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Received this e-mail from Hugh today-
From: "Hugh Wallis" <hugh(a)our-own-home.com>
To: <slo_taft(a)juno.com>
<<OK - your wish is my command
<My first lot of North American numbers are up on the site - you can <get
to them from the same page as before -
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm
<- there will be more to come if folks can tell me what ranges to look
<in!!
<Please pass the word around
<All the very best
<Hugh Wallis
<Ontario, Canada
<Formerly of Surrey, UK>>
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<<Dear Hugh,
<As I am quite sure you know, all of the Rootsweb mailings lists are
<quite atwitter with your grand performance on putting together this <new
IGI search facility for the UK. I have personally benefited a <great
deal from your work already and thank you heartily for it.
<As I subscribe to the LDS-Lessons list, others were asking when this
<was going to be done for other places, such as the United States. I
<replied to the list that you had done this work on your own and <unless
someone wanted to accumulate the data and ask if you would <share the
programming needed, it probably wasn't going to happen <anytime soon. >>