Naitonal Archives, FamilySearch to place records collection online

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) of the United States and FamilySearch announced a major program that will digitize, index and place major segments of NARAs vast records collection online in the coming years. According to an article on the LDS Newsroom Web site, the majority of the records will include court, military, land and other government documents that date as early as 1754 to as late as the 1990s. A collection of 3,150 Civil War widow pension application files (approximately 500,000 pages) are already being digitized by FamilySearch and will be indexed and posted online by Footnote.com. FamilySearch intends to do all 1,280,000 files during the coming years and will make the indexes available for free on the FamilySearch Web site or at the National Archives and its regional centers. To read the entire story on LDS Newsroom please click here.