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Mormon Immigration Index
[Excerpt]... The Mormon Immigration Index database includes records
of more than 93,000 Latter-day Saint converts who crossed both
Atlantic and Pacific oceans between 1840 and 1890 to gather in
Nauvoo, Illinois, LDS outposts, and later in Utah. Data includes
name, age, country of origin, port of departure and arrival,
passenger list, the company leader assigned to each voyage, and
other general voyage information. Although this information is
primarily for those with Latter-day Saint ancestors, those who
traveled with the Saints are included also.....
Conquerors of the West: Stalwart
Mormon Pioneers, Vols. 1-4
[Excerpt]... This database is a collection of histories compiled by
The National Society of the Sons of the Utah Pioneers. This
database includes all four volumes produced by The Sons of the Utah
Pioneers and indexes persons with the last names A-Z. The database
includes names, dates, and other vital information about the lives
of Mormon (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
pioneers who settled in Utah.....
David Rencher, New Director of the
Libraries Division of the LDS Family History Department
[Excerpt]... David Rencher has been promoted to the position of
Director of the Libraries Division of the Family History
Department. This puts him in charge of the Family History Library
in Salt Lake City, the Family Search Center in the Joseph Smith
Memorial Building, all of the family history centers worldwide, and
the Public Outreach Department for the Family History Department of
the LDS [Mormon] Church.....
LDS FamilySearch.org to Add 240
Million New Names, AuctionFerret, and more!
[Excerpt]... There hasn't been any official announcement, but two
Salt Lake City newspapers report that the Mormon's popular online
Web site will add a lot more records to their online database on
Monday. The addition of 240 million new names will mean that a
total of 640 million records will now be available. In addition,
FamilySearch plans early next year to index the new Pedigree
Resource File (PRF), a database of family history records being
uploaded to the site by users. Only the index is expected to be
online. The files containing PRF data will be available on a set of
CD-ROM disks. The PRF, already listing more than 5 million names,
is projected to grow at the rate of 1.2 million names per
month.....
Free PAF Downloads at the LDS
FamilySearch Site
[Excerpt]... Beginning Monday morning, June 28--just five weeks
after the launch of its top-rated new Internet genealogy
service--The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [Mormon]
is offering free downloads of Personal Ancestral File® 4.0, a new
Windows®-based version of its popular genealogical management
program for home computers.....
LDS FamilySearch Site Eliminates
15-Minute Access Cycling
[Excerpt]... Due to the overwhelming response to the new (Mormon)
LDS FamilySearch site that was officially launched on May 24, a
15-minute access cycle was implemented. After the initial launch,
the site was reporting 100 million hits per day and many people had
a difficult time accessing the site.....
LDS Church Officially Launches
FamilySearch Site
[Excerpt]... In a press conference on Monday, The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) announced the official launch
of the FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service at:
www.familysearch.org....
New Sources for Tracing LDS
Immigrants
[Excerpt]... Many genealogical sources are available for tracing
the immigration of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints (Mormons). These include emigration records,
passenger lists, LDS mission records, LDS Church records and
indexes, diaries and journals, personal voyage accounts,
genealogies, newspapers, Canadian Border Crossings, computer
databases, Internet sites, and many others. The release of a new
compact disc, known as the Mormon Immigration Index, by the Family
and Church History Department in Salt Lake City will make the task
of finding nineteenth-century Mormon immigrants much
easier.....
Western European CD-ROM Now Available
from LDS [Mormon] Church
[Excerpt]... SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH - Twelve and a half million vital
records from Western Europe are now available on CD-ROM from The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [Mormon]. The Vital
Records Index for Western Europe includes information extracted
from birth, christening, and marriage records from the Alpine,
Benelux, French, German, Italian, and Spanish regions.....
LDS Family and Church History
Department Adopts XML Standard
[Excerpt]... At a technical session of the GENTECH 2001 conference
last week, Randy Bryson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints [Mormon] announced that the Church is now standardizing on
the XML programming language for all future software products. This
announcement will have an immediate impact on producers of
genealogy software and eventually will benefit all
genealogists.....
More on LDS ChurchÆs Adoption of the
XML Standard
[Excerpt]... Last week I wrote an article titled "LDS Family and
Church History Department Adopts XML Standard." In the article, I
wrote, "Randy Bryson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints [Mormon] announced that the Church is now standardizing on
the XML programming language for all future software
products."....
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