Naitonal Archives, FamilySearch going 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 NARA's 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.