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Show Community WASATCH PAGE 21 COUNTY COURIER JuLy 13, 1999 i} | PUBLIC MEETINGS | ' CALENDAR Rating | Wednesday, July 14 4 p.m. Airport Advisory Board LTT] -Olympic usage 6. Airport Open House hie Charleston Water Midway City Planning --Concept for Spgs. of Moritz y g o l a e n e G in r e d a e L World Thursday, July 15 Heber City Council 8:30am. Olympic Update 2 p.m. County Commision 5 p.m. Fire District Meeting 6p.m. —. Any Public Meeting Ist, 3rd Thursday 7:30 p.m. Midway Council 2nd, 4th Wednesday 7:30 p.m. ist Tuesday 7 p.m, Midway Sanitation 2nd Monday 7:30 p.m. Midway Water ist, 3rd Thursday 7 p.m. Heber City Council ‘2nd, 4th Thursday Epm. Heber City Planning | T Baa: Heber Board of Adj. 3rd Wednesday ee Internet initiative will boost family research Fai History | sinealopmnlt repository’. the Library(tm) in downtown Salt Lake City. Tracing family history has become one of the moet popular uses of the World Wide Web, with millions of people logging on daily. 3- The Church announced its FamilySearch(r) - which encourages its members to trage their ancestors. - Internet Genealogy. Service. simultaneously today in as a religious obligation, is initially placing nearly 400 ‘Salt Lake City and. Washington, D.C., after an eight- — million names of deceased people on the Internet—_ week test that has already. received more than 200 mil with the promise of more to come. The site can be. lion hits. In addition to the database: now. Gacessible from found at www.familysearch.org. _ The ES pias is ae of the world’s S gece home ee the service includes: . SALT LAKE CITY, Utah—Hundreds of millions of names—part of the world’s largest collection of genealogical data—are now accessible from home computers for the first time, following a major initiative involving the Internet. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Midway Planning 3 il Legent nimi > I ; Every Monday | f| Research Puts Data On-Line ; nem sen nenepecenarnes -Request to vacate road -Morgan Annexation _ fj 7 p.m. SA UIT AEC 7:30 _. Snoozer, bring a book. * A new search engine that hunts for specific names and relationships throughout the Church’s on-line -database. ‘It also searches -for surnames: among thousands of smaller genealogical web sites — already on the Internet that have been evaluated by ie Beats ice fishing. Church volunteers. -* On-line access to the catalog of the world’s , largest , genealogical library: the ne Library in-Salt Lake City. * Ability for users to share their _ Cheaper than a movie. eo our and — collaborate with others searching the same family. lines. Great family entertainment Taking a trip this summer? _* An option for users worldwide to preserve~ _ their own family histories by submitting electronic . files that are then indexed.and preserved for poster- We have what you need: to take along! j +P RELIANCE ity. Explaining the new service, Elder D. Todd Christofferson, executive director of the Church’s Family History Department, said the Church’s intent is to make family history research easier and more SARONGS LONG OR SHORT DRESSES WASHABLE LINEN LEATHER & CANVAS BAGS First Reliance Mortgage, proud to be.a part of the — Wasatch County community! effective. Web,” he said. “It has been an enormous undertaking. Hundreds of volunteers have been FN RSES <osMEnic & JCWIELIRY BAGS 444 North Main < “This new genealogical search service will revolutionize the way people trace their roots on the enlisted to | evaluate the thousands of genealogical databases — already out there, — a home_pages to. substantial resources.” The Church has been gathering | records wotkle wide for more than a century to help its members in — family history research. Today, the Church is the world leader in family history. In addition to its mas- - Heber City sive collection of records at its Salt Lake City 118 South 500 West | 654-9979 11A-6P ee Pe PAS Se ad ee ee eg library, the Church operates more than 3,400 Family _ Heber omy History Centers(tm) worldwide. “We believe that family relationships can be. eternal, and by searching out our ancestors we can begin to better understand who we are and what we « MON- SAT 435,654. 2267 | al may become,” said Elder Christofferson. 4 |