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From: "W. David Samuelsen" <>
Subject: Re: [GENMASSACHUSETTS] FHL catalog link to on-line version of book
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 02:46:50 -0600
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Priscilla - you're confusing two different projects.

BYU project is scanning family histories books and the books are linked
in the catalog

The volunteer indexing - is named Family Search Indexing "FSI"
volunteers sign up and index the records such as death certificates,
marriage certificates and census records so they can be available for
free access linked to images of actual records.
One example is West Virginia's BMDs. I am one of the indexers.
http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_dcsearch.aspx

Already done to my knowledge, Georgia, Ohio and Texas Death
Certificates. Preparations are already underway to get the images and
indexes online.

Volunteer Indexing sign up:
http://www.familysearchindexing.org/en/index.jsp

Already has over 30,000 volunteers and goal is 100,000 by end of the year.

W. David Samuelsen



PRISCILLA HAINES wrote:
> Isn't it great! It's being done by BYU. I heard this morning that everyday
> about 100 new people are signing on to volunteer. Isn't it exciting!
> Priscilla
>
>
> Greetings,
> I'm curious, when did the Family History Library (FHL) start putting links
> to on-line versions of books in their catalog? I don't know how many they
>
>

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