The new series emphasizes the world of records, making it an exciting research tool for beginning and seasoned genealogists alike. Whether your library has an extensive collection of local history and genealogy records or whether you get only an occasional query about family history, the combination of exciting research stories and expert advice in this series can help your patrons to get involved and to be successful in their search for roots. But Ancestors is more than simply a how-to PBS series. This free site offers more than 292,000 records from over 1,800 cemeteries worldwide. Focused mainly on the US, the site lists gravestone inscriptions that have been collected by the site authors or contributors.
Visitors can browse the records by country or search by surname.
Other features included as well. Each level - Friend, Bronze, Silver and Gold now provide for either a Memorial Obituary, Memorial Tribute or several Memorials with a Photo. All Sustaining Memberships received after 1 October 1999 will be listed on the 2000 Sustaining Members Page . The Benefits Package was also approved as being retroactive to all 1999 Sustaining Members who will be receiving a email notice on how to take advantage of the changes. Benefits include Standard Obituary placed in the Memorial Tribute Collection .