Family Search Site

Daniel,

I just checked FamilySearch.org and it is not updated. It has a new look, but I am not finding in the IGI what I am finding in the Pilot Site (see link below).

http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=0

This pilot site is so great. I am finding ancestors I have been looking for for years that were never indexed in the IGI. I also am finding many ancestors who came from Mexico and settled in the Lower El Paso Valley and Mesilla Valley 100 years ago (in the Texas Death records). Every day that I check this site, I find they have uploaded more and more baptism records and census info.

Another site that is great for those of us whose ancestors settled in the southwest in the late 1800s and early 20th century is GenealogyBank.com. They have historical newspapers from the Southwest, and I found an article about the assassination of my great-grandfather in 1900. I had only heard the story from my mother and her siblings, but they didn't know the details. He was a wealthy rancher in the Mesilla Valley, and the story appeared in papers as far as the Kansas City Star.

My housework and yardwork have gone to pot, I spend so much time browsing the Pilot Site. I also signed up as a volunteer and downloaded the program to do indexing for them, but I can't figure out how to contact them to give me a project to work on.

Emilie
Port Orchard, WA