The following excerpt is from the April 2 edition of the Deseret News.
SALT LAKE CITY — Free access to three prominent genealogy websites may be coming sooner than expected for LDS Church members.
In February, FamilySearch.org, a nonprofit family history organization owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, announced that LDS Church members eventually will be granted free subscriptions to Ancestry.com, MyHeritage.com and FindMyPast.com as part of an ongoing partnership in which the companies collaborate to obtain historical records and share resources.
Originally, FamilySearch encouraged church members to be patient because this special access wouldn’t be available until the end of 2014.
But Thom Reed, FamilySearch’s partner marketing manager, recently reported the project is ahead of schedule….
