The Mormons (LDS) have officially put three of Kenneth W. Faig Jr.’s Lovecraft books online for free. No, they haven’t suddenly taken to worshiping Cthulhu. The Mormons are interested in anything genealogical, since tracing your ancestors is apparently a key part of their religion. So they’re happy to include serious works of that nature in their vast online databases. No registration required, to view.
George Elliott Lovecraft: Lost Scion of the House of Lovecraft (Moshassuck, 2010).
Qvae Amamvs Tvemvr: Ancestors in Lovecraft’s Life & Fiction (Moshassuck, 2008).
Devonshire Ancestry of Howard Phillips Lovecraft (with Chris Docherty & Langley Searles) (Moshassuck, 2003).
Faig’s 1993 Phillips genealogy (with its 1994 Corrections & Additions volume) for Lovecraft’s maternal line is available free, but only via LDS microfilm. Presumably one can access it via local LDS research centres, of which there are many.
I added these to the Open Lovecraft page on this blog.
Thanks for providing the links for the three works of mine which LDS has digitized. I think LDS has a long-term project to convert all microfilm-based resources to digitized form, but that will probably take years to accomplish. The microfilm-based resources can be ordered on-line and viewed at any LDS family history center, which welcome researchers of all denominations, including “none of the above.” Frank Long once teased Lovecraft by drawing an illustration depicting various exotic (Cthulhuvian) creatures with the caption (here I am just recollecting): “My, what interesting ancestors you have…”