[or-roots] Fw: LDS Digitizing Books, on-line NOW at BYU !!!

[Ronda Howard]

Hello everyone,
The following is a message from the Barrett list I'm on.  I followed the 
directions to make sure they worked.  There is also an option to browse.  I 
tried that and got this message:  "Search Results: Your search retrieved 
4379 matching item(s). Select an item below for viewing."  I put in my 
Brewer name and got 13 hits.  I think they changed the search box locations 
from when these directions were sent.  Other than that, it looks like a 
great place for some research.
Happy Hunting!
Ronda Howard


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Barrett" <barrett at vaxxine.com>
To: "A" <barrett at vaxxine.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 8:06 PM
Subject: LDS Digitizing Books, on-line NOW at BYU !!!



 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 
"929.273 Series" 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.