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From: Ken Boonie <kab9(a)apollo.vicon.net>
To: PAHUNTIN-L(a)rootsweb.com <PAHUNTIN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Date: Saturday, March 06, 1999 9:17 PM
Subject: [Fwd: LDS Website]
I receieved this from a friend in Salt Lake City who has worked for
the
LDS church in their Family History department for many years. I think
this will clear up any ideas that are out there.
Bruce
CHURCH GENEALOGY WEBSITE BEING PREPARED
See
http://www.msnbc.com/news/246411.asp
<a
href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/246411.asp">Link</a>
Many Gems subscribers wrote to us about this article - a report called
"Genealogy bounty coming to Web." According to the report, "Much to the
delight of genealogists, the Mormons are preparing to make some of their
vast holdings of family records available on the World Wide Web for the
first time next month, if not sooner." The new website will be found at
http://www.familysearch.org and is set for release in April; a test
period
in March may be restricted to a small group of selected testers who will
be given a password. There is lots of good information in the article
about the Church's focus on genealogy.
See
http://newsnet.byu.edu/noframes/show_story.cfm?number=9543
<a
href="http://newsnet.byu.edu/noframes/show_story.cfm?number=9543&quo...
The BYU newspaper reports that the trial period will be held sometime in
March or April, with a formal launch date of "early summer."
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