>From Ancestry's Blog > http://blogs.ancestry.com/circle/?p=1792 > received the following from one of my colleagues at Ancestry regarding the > Internet Biographical Collection: > > Hi, my name is Kendall Hulet, and I'm a product manager at Ancestry.com. > I've probably met a lot of you at FGS, NGS, and other conferences. If not, > I > look forward to meeting you in the future. > > I wanted to write you a note because I'm extremely concerned about the > frustrations that the recently-removed Internet Biographical Collection > has > caused. We had hoped to provide a way for you to be able to search the > entire web easily for genealogically-relevant pages and provide for > preservation of sources for future generations. In looking back, we > understand why members of the community are upset. We've heard you loud > and > clear, and we've removed this product with no intention of re-releasing > it. > Instead, it is my hope that someday we'll be able to provide a free web > search engine that links directly back to the live web pages, and can > become > a useful tool to the genealogical community. If we do move forward with > this > type of initiative, we will seek your input and talk more with community > leaders to make sure we get it right. > > Kendall Hulet