FamilySearch starts new records-access project
Administrador - Genealogia.org.mx
Posted by Diane
In the next two years, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints' FamilySearch will release free online indexes for a long list
of genealogical records-150 million images total. Thousands of
volunteers are already working fast and furiously on FamilySearch
projects to index digitized records, so the church is turning to
another source for help with this one: businesses such as The
Generations Network, Footnote and others.
(http://www.familytreemagazine.com/insider/ct.ashx?
id=9d666ced-1cc8-489e-bcf3-8dd9e5560e75&url=http%3a%2f%2ftgn)
For what's known as the Genesis Project, FamilySearch-the church's
records-scanning arm-has put out a "request for information" seeking
interested commercial service providers and records repositories.
FamilySearch will digitize the records, which spokesperson Paul Nauta
says is the most expensive part of putting records online, and service
providers would index them. Indexes would be free on FamilySearch and
on the service provider's and/or record repository's Web site.
Targeted record groups include US and British censuses, US county
naturalizations, Spanish parish registers, German SS records from the
National Archives and Ukraine L'viv church records.
Those entities could choose to charge for access to digitized record
images; the images would be free at the LDS church's Family History
Centers.
In other FamilySearch news:
FamilySearch's Family History Library, Allen County Public Library and
the Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library are joining to
digitize and index 100,000 books in the libraries' holdings of local
and family histories from all across the country. It'll be the largest
collection of its kind on the Web with free access at the BYU
library's site. Read more on FamilySearch.
Next up for the FamilySearch Indexing Project is the 1930 Mexico
Census, Revolutionary War Pensions and Land Warrants, Irish Civil
Registration and 1900 US census records for more states.
For more information on FamilySearch records access initiatives, look
for the November 2007 Family Tree Magazine, on newsstands and
FamilyTreeMagazine.com Sept. 11.