Fayetteville's Jeannette Holland Austin's new compact disc “Internet Ancestors 2000” will make genealogy research just a little bit easier.

This one-of-a-kind compact disc, written in HTML code, is available to assist genealogists in doing their research online. A researcher simply goes online, inserts the CD, then clicks on the links. He or she will then find it possible to do fingertip research through vast stores of information in a fraction of the time formerly needed.

“Internet Ancestors 2000 is the alternative to spending countless hours surfing the web in search of data, and then trying to bookmark it,” said Austin, a longtime genealogist.

“The web has been a blessing to the genealogist during recent years, making the task of researching records less cumbersome as online databases, family histories, census, county records, etc., by sending them directly to their desired sources for information,” she added.

To see a sample of how this works, go to http:geneology-books.combooktxinterne2.html and click on Georgia.

Austin has written more than 50 books on family histories, databases and various county and state records. Most of these books were published by the Genealogy Publishing Co. (770-719-1754) and are sold by them and numerous other book dealers and stores. She also publishes a free weekly online newsletter, “Expert Genealogy,” a help for the beginner to the expert which discusses all research techniques.

The Genealogy Books website (www.genealogy-books.com) is the largest growing web bookstore, containing more than 10,000 titles for the genealogist. Genealogy Books is located at 175 Thornton Dr. in Fayetteville.