Ancestry.com Acquires Find A Grave http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2013/09/30/ancestry-com-acquires-find-a-grave/ *We will maintain Find A Grave as a free website, will retain its existing policies and mode of operation, and look forward to working with Jim Tipton and . . . . . . . . * Paul On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 8:10 AM, David Johnson <davidj.alhn@gmail.com>wrote: > If it is true that Findagrave has been bought by ancestry, then we all have > been played for fools. Ancestry would want it for only one reason- to make > money off our free labor. Just think of that- we were all duped into making > someone rich with our free labor, walking cemeteries and taking photos, > when we could have just put that on our own sites. Do you reckon that soon > ancestry will make it a pay site to view it like they did with the SSDI? > > There is something I have done with cemetery data that attracts visitors in > spite of Findagrave. I write a complete history of the cemetery, all the > tombstone data, and then add several paragraphs of who the deceased's > family were and any information I can find about them. What we put on ALHN > will remain free and stay here if we make our sites Legacy sites. A > commercial site cannot be trusted. If we shy away from putting information > on our sites, giving up to commercial sites, soon we'll have to quit, and > that's Ancestry's goal. They buy out the competition and out pace the > smaller sites to make them quit. Eventually every court record will be on > ancestry, too. Maybe if we quit paying, and quit putting photos on > findagrave ourselves, we won't be the cause of our own failure, and free > genealogy will have a chance. We have willingly participated in our own > downfall. > > I say put everything you have on your own site and make ALHN grow. in the > end, if both sites have the info, we stand a chance. If we keep limiting > ourselves, we will keep being pushed backwards. > > David Johnson > > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 8:47 PM, <SherryeW@aol.com> wrote: > > > Joyce, this isn't disagreeing with me at all. I agree courthouse > records > > online would be a wonderful thing for ALHN sites. These are the kind of > > things that would be very useful to a genealogist and would make them > come > > back to our websites. Hard to find records of any kind would be great > for > > ALHN pages. I just think cemetery records are not going to attract > > people to > > small websites anymore when a major cemetery website already exists > > offering a "one-stop shopping experience". I never used Find-A-Grave > > until this > > past summer when I found some ancestors on the site. Now I have been > > putting all my info on that site. If you are not familiar with > > Find-A-Grave, > > there is a place for the birth and death info, a space for adding the > > tombstone inscription, a place for a biography if you want, a place to > > add the lot > > number/GPS info, a place to add tombstone photos or any other photos of > > the person, a place to add a memorial with your name so other cousins > can > > contact you, and in my opinion the best feature is that you can link > > spouses > > and children to each page and so create an online family tree of burial > > sites. It is much more "usable" than a page of typed cemetery info. I > > feel the > > future of ALHN is not in adding more census or cemeteries, but to create > a > > niche of offering hard to find local records/photos/bios that just aren't > > available anywhere else. > > > > Sherrye > > > > In a message dated 11/15/2013 11:07:50 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, > > jgreece55@gmail.com writes: > > > > Sherry, I agree with your statements to a point but here is my > > disagreement. I research in a region of counties....Hamilton > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > ALHN-GENERAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ALHN-GENERAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >