April Blakely has started a non-profit project to reprint rare and old genealogy reference books and family histories on CD-ROM. The project specializes in books from South Africa and Zimbabwe currently but eventually hopes to expand to other countries around the world where research is difficult. Currently there are more than fifty titles available in the catalog with news additions monthly.

This project was generated by the RootsWeb South African Mailing List in August of 2000 and has grown rapidly. Books from this area of the world are extremely scarce, and even when they are available, the cost generally is out of the reach of most researchers. Rare Reprints hopes to change all that. April Blakely reports, "100 percent of the our proceeds are used to increase the book collection."

You may be interested in purchasing CD-ROM disks or in contributing to the project. You can see it for yourself at: rarereprints.tripod.com.

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