SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -
Did your ancestors include pioneers or immigrants, villages or soldiers,
princesses or tailors? villains or soldiers, princesses or tailors?
A Web site that officially kicks off Monday and offers access to
the largest collection of genealogical data in the world may help
you find out.
The site, put up by the Mormon church, contains links to 400 million names of people who lived
dated back to l500 - many with family pedigree charts. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will add millions more names later this year from its
records on 2 billion dead people. Cyndi Howell of Puyallup, Washington
creator of a popular index of genealogica l Web sites, sats the
new site is "a real boon to genealogy. It's like bringing Disneyland
into your home."
The Web site has been accessible since it began testing on April
I, with improvements made along the way. Church
President Gordon B. Hinckley will formally
unveil the site and roll out an improved version Monday in Salt
Lake City. Even before the kinks were worked out, the site was a
hit. The test site received 2 million visits on its first day, as
many as the next most popular genealogical Web site gets in a month,
and has had more than 7 million hits per day ever since.
That ranks it among the to 80 places on the Web, said Alex Dunn,
president of LavaStorm, the Boston company that developed software
for the site. "The church has done for genealogy what Amazon
has done for books on the Internet. It's revolutionized it,"
Dunn said. For more than a century, the Mormon church has dispatched
members throughout the world to hand-copy and later photograph and
microfilm parish and civil records. The records, now all on microfilm,
are stored in a granite vault in the Wasatch Mountains 2.5 miles(40kms)
southeast of Salt Lake, and copies are at the Mormon
Family History Livrary near the temple
downtown.
The church's goal is to help members find names of ancestors to
baptize by proxy and ordinance the Mormons believe gives the dead
the opportunity to embrace the faith in the afterlife. "We
thought the Internet would be a major step forward in making it
easier, especially for members, but for every one involved in family
history, to collaborate," said Elder D, Todd Christofferson,
executive director of the church's Family History Department .
The site also has what amounts to a card catalog to the church's
Family History Library - everything from immigrant ship passenger
lists to homestead records to births and deaths. To verify their
online research, users can look at ;microfilm of the original records
at the library here or by ordering a copy at one of the church's
3,200 Family History Centers worldwide. Christofferson said the
church uses an army of volunteers to screen other genealogy Web
sites, and the search engine will look in 4,000 of those as well
as in church sources.
Lee Caldwell, director of Internet technology strategy at IBM, which
is hosting the Web site on its computer servers in Chicago, predicted
the site will become one of the "top three or four sites on
the Internet in terms of the number of people hitting it on an ongoing
basis." Caldwell said the site could make a fortune, but the
Mormon church will not accept advertising, and access to the genealogical
data is free.
The genealogical site can be found at www.familysearch.org -
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