New Partnership: Ebooks From FamilySearch.org Will Soon Be Discoverable via DPLA

From Today’s DPLA Announcement:

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and FamilySearch International, the largest genealogy organization in the world, have signed an agreement that will expand access to FamilySearch.org’s growing free digital historical book collection to DPLA’s broad audience of users…
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With this new partnership, DPLA will incorporate metadata from FamilySearch.org’s online digital book collection that will make more than 200,000 family history books discoverable through DPLA’s search portal later this year. From DPLA, users will be able to access the free, fully viewable digital books on FamilySearch.org.
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The digitized historical book collection at FamilySearch.org includes genealogy and family history publications from the archives of some of the most important family history libraries in the world. The collection includes family histories, county and local histories, genealogy magazines and how-to books, gazetteers, and medieval histories and pedigrees.  Tens of thousands of new publications are added yearly.

 
Read the Complete Announcement
See Also: Search/Browse/Read FamilySearch Collection of Family History Books (via FamilySearch.org)
From the FamilySearch Family History Books Webpage:

The collection includes family histories, county and local histories, genealogy magazines and how-to books, gazetteers, and medieval histories and pedigrees. The valuable resources included in Family History Books come from the following partner institutions:

• Allen County Public Library
• Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library
• Brigham Young University Idaho David O. McKay Library
• Brigham Young University Hawaii Joseph F. Smith Library
• Church History Library
• Family History Library
• Houston Public Library – Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research
• Mid-Continent Public Library – Midwest Genealogy Center
• Historical Society of Pennsylvania
• Onondaga County Public Library
• University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
• Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records

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