POSSIBILITIES IN THE INTERNET

The FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service (www.familysearch.org) is a World Wide Web service sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to help people find and share family history information. It is the world’s biggest and most popular genealogical Internet site and provides the following features:

With Search for Ancestors, people can type information about an ancestor and find out whether any of the cataloged Internet sites, resource files, and donated information available through the service may contain additional information about the ancestor.

The Browse Categories feature allows people to look for information about a family history topic.

Collaborate with Others allows people to share family history information via e-mail.

Family Search Facts and Statistics

�?    Launch date 24 May 1999
�?    Number of names in searchable databases  957 million
�?    Number of hits since launch 10.3 billion
�?    Number of visitors since launch 143 million
�?    Number of pages viewed since launch 2.1 billion
�?    Average number of hits per day 14 million
�?    Average number of visitors per day 130,000
�?    Average number of pages viewed per day 3.5 million
�?    Number of registered users: Over 1 million