Records Access program at FHL
Sorry about the recent lack of updates! Life has a way of smacking you upside the head sometimes. I’ve been working on some short articles on the use of land surveying in genealogy and I hope to post them soon.
Anyway, here’s a short clip about the goings on at the Family History Library:
Under the Records Access program, unveiled this week at a conference of genealogists in Richmond, Va., the collaboration will provide free services to archives and other records custodians who wish to digitize, index, publish and preserve their collections.
Here’s how it works: An army of volunteers will continue to index data from 2.4 million rolls of microfilm being housed at the LDS Church’s Granite Mountain Records Vault, as well as digitize and index data from other sources. They will collect information already indexed at other sites. Then the records will be posted on the church’s Web site, FamilySearch.org, and opened to the public. [Read more]
Sounds like some very cool stuff going on. Remember to thank all the volunteers that give their time so that we can discover and help others discover our family history.