WSJ.com - New Ways to Dig For Your Roots Online

FamilySearch.org in today's Wall Street Journal (as part of an interesting piece on genealogical research online).

"In recent months, FamilySearch.org, a free site sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has been expanding its collection of birth, marriage, death, census and other records. It has also begun a massive project to digitize billions of records previously available only on microfilm, particularly civil, church and local records. It plans to make those available online beginning early next year. At the same time, a new genealogy search tool from MyHeritage Ltd., a free service based in Israel, is allowing consumers to simply search across hundreds of genealogy databases at once. These databases include everything from lists of passengers kept by ships transporting immigrants to war casualty records and photo archives."

WSJ.com - New Ways to Dig For Your Roots Online