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 Friday, February 01, 2013
Genealogists Win With FamilySearch/OCLC Partnership
Posted by Diane
Two indispensable genealogy resources are joining forces, resulting in a win for genealogists wanting to access offline family history materials.
FamilySearch and OCLC (the Online Computer Library Center) have
reached an agreement to list the holdings of the FamilySearch genealogy catalog in WorldCat,
the OCLC's online search portal to
catalogs from 74,000 repositories in more than 70 countries.
Under this partnership, OCLC will incorporate data from
FamilySearch’s catalog into WorldCat, and FamilySearch will use OCLC
cataloging services to continue to catalog its collections in
WorldCat. FamilySearch will also incorporate WorldCat results into
search results returned by FamilySearch genealogy services.
Once they're
combined, instead of searching WorldCat for family and local
histories and other sources, then searching FamilySearch for
genealogy records, you'll be able to run a search at either site for results from both.
That'll also make it easier to see when a library near you holds
copies of FamilySearch genealogy resources—including printed books,
which FamilySearch doesn't circulate to its local FamilySearch
Centers.
On WorldCat, you can set up a profile to create your own
bibliographies, review materials, and more. WorldCat also has a Facebook app so you can search
from within Facebook.
Get the most out of WorldCat by downloading
our WorldCat search tutorial for genealogists from
ShopFamilyTree.com for $1.99.
Once you find materials you want to borrow from the FamilySearch
Family History Library, you'll need to plan a visit to a
FamilySearch Center. Click
here for our tips on doing genealogy research at FamilySearch
Centers.
Read more about the FamilySearch/OCLC partnership in the organizations' press release.
FamilySearch | Libraries and Archives
Friday, February 01, 2013 9:44:20 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00) 
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