The Knowles Collection: Photocopies from the Family History Library

05 February 2013

Photocopies from the Family History Library

Yesterday, the Family History Library (FHL) in Salt Lake City, Utah announced a new policy on ordering photocopies from sources within their collection. In a post that appeared on the FamilySearch blog, Merrill White, announced that if a patron is willing to receive a digital copy of the item through email, it will now be provided free of charge. He states;

"All requests for information copied from films, book pages, CDs, marriage, death or birth certificates, wills and/or deeds, etc. will be copied in digital format and emailed to patrons in a zipped PDF or JPG file format. There is no charge for this service if we are able to email to information to patrons."

What a great opportunity this is for researchers throughout the world to access the copies of their family records. The entire article can be read by accessing the following link. Change in photo duplication policies.

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Growth and Change

In the 12 years since the Knowles Collection was first published, the numbers have climbed from 7,500 to over 1,4000,000. So many of our ancestors left their native lands for new homes. Because of that movement the collection will now be in 6 different databases. All of them will be under the Knowles Collection umbrella. They are Jews of The British Isles; Jews of the North America; Jews of Europe; Jews of South America and the Caribbean; and Jews of Africa and the Orient and the newest one, Jews of the Southern Pacific.. This is a great indication of how universal our families are, and of how much still needs to be done.