An often unheralded, free resource that I love is the BYU Family History Archive, a collection of family histories and other genealogy books online. Now this great resource is set to expand dramatically due to a joint partnership of three genealogical libraries - The Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library, and FamilySearch's Family History Library in Salt Lake City. When complete, this massive digitization effort promises to be the most comprehensive collection of city and county histories one the Web. Best of all, access will remain free!

The digital history project is targeting over 100,000 published family histories and thousands of local histories, city directories and other related records from the collections of the three libraries. Once they are digitized, the collections will have "every word" search capability, with search results linked to digital images of the original publication. New additions will be announced and linked to in the Family History Library Catalog at FamilySearch as they are digitized.