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Family Treeby Sue Strick

Last month I reported that Ellis Island was going hi-Tech. Finally they went online at the time of this writing. The records cover 1892 to 1924. Enjoy!
http://www.ellisislandrecords.org

The LDS Family History Library reports that the 2000 Addendum has been added to the International
Genealogical Index. on their website. This increases the records in this index from 660 million names to over 705 million. http://familysearch.org

More Hi-tech news about the LDS Family History library, but for visitors only. This news from Rhonda McClure who sends out a daily genealogy e-mail called FAMILY TREE FINDERS
Thursday 12 April 2001
. . . Imagine being able to scan a microfilm and bum that image onto a CD-ROM. Think I am teasing you with the future? The future is now. Outside the Copy Center on the second floor, the US and Canada floor, where the change machines used to be is a desk. On that desk there is a microfilm scanner but, instead of a printer, this scanner has a desktop computer and monitor attached.

The desktop computer has a CD burner. You need to
purchase a CD-ROM disk from the Copy Center attendants. The cost of the CD-ROM is $1.75. You put your microfilm on the reader. Then you use the mouse to select the Scan option on screen. If you do not like the image that appears, you have the option to rescan, making changes in the brightness and other options first. Once you have scanned the microfilms you want you can either eject the CD-ROM to add to later, or you can create the CD so that it is viewable on any other system . . .

You can subscribe to Family Tree Finders written by Rhonda R. McClure. Send blank email message to:
join-sodamaiI+FT@gt.sodamail.com

You might find some use for The Universal
Currency ConverterTM
.
Convert any amount of money from any country to another. See this at http://www.xe.net/ucc/

Did you know that there are 78 Cemeteries in
Lorain County? Our genealogy group, with the help of  many volunteers, now has 54 of these cemeteries online complete with gravestone inscriptions. Take a look at this project at
www.centurytel.net/lorgen/cemetery/cemetery.htm


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