>From what I understand, the agreement between rootsweb and ancestry when rootsweb sold their site to ancestry was that all of their databases would remain free to view (though filled with tons of ads from ancestry) and anything donated to rootsweb would remain free to view. I hope they continue to honor their agreement. Ancestry is very agressive. But they will have some competition soon as the LDS Church, who originally donated alot of their work to ancestry, is currently working on digitizing all of their records in the Salt Lake City Library to bring online at their own website, www.familysearch.org and has a huge volunteer operation going on now that anyone can help with to create indexing for all of these images. They are working presently on all of the censuses. If you want to help, go to www.familysearchindexing.org and it's simple to get going. They give you free software to download and tutorials on how to use it. Then you download an image at a time to do at your own pace. Usually takes about 45 mins. to do a page. You have up to a week to do each image, so you can squeeze it into your spare time. Each page is done by two different people and then compared. If there are any differences, it goes to an arbitrator to decide which interpretation is correct, so the greatest possible accuracy is their goal. It will be wonderful when all of their resources are available to view, and it will be FREE to everyone! I've already seen a few images popping up in their library catalog which you can see online at www.familysearch.org It's really exciting! The clock is ticking for ancestry.com! If you've ever wondered why it is so hard to find names in the indexes for ancestry, it's because they hire cheap help from India and other Asian countries to do their transcribing. It's hard enough for us to read some of the old handwriting on faded films in our own language, but add into the mix someone coming from a foreign language background and you have a mess! One of our Italian families from Worcester, Pasquale and Christina DeBonis, came up totally unrecognizable in their index, when we finally found it!! I knew the family was there, ever since they arrived from Italy til the day they died, they lived on the same street, in the same house, but I could not for the life of me find them in the index. Finally I had to resort to using advance searching methods, and go through the individual family names one by one until I finally found one that connected us to the right family. Whew! I notified ancestry, and they put a note on it for an alternate transcribed name so others could find it more easily in the future. Sandy Sandra Lee Blakley 336 South 30th St. Philomath, OR 97370 541-929-2259 --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.

LDS Church never donated anything to Ancestry except two indexes to 1881 British and 1880 US Census. Much of stuff you see in Ancestry were from various places and certain unsavory individuals who have already been identified by LDS' Security and stopped. That's why there is this policy notice against wholesale copying for such companies. What Ancestry is doing right now is in direct competition with LDS' FamilySearch now. W. DAvid Samuelsen Sandy Blakley wrote: >>From what I understand, the agreement between rootsweb and ancestry when rootsweb sold their site to ancestry was that all of their databases would remain free to view (though filled with tons of ads from ancestry) and anything donated to rootsweb would remain free to view. I hope they continue to honor their agreement. > > Ancestry is very agressive. But they will have some competition soon as the LDS Church, who originally donated alot of their work to ancestry, is currently working on digitizing all of their records in the Salt Lake City Library to bring online at their own website, www.familysearch.org and has a huge volunteer operation going on now that anyone can help with to create indexing for all of these images. They are working presently on all of the censuses. If you want to help, go to www.familysearchindexing.org and it's simple to get going. They give you free software to download and tutorials on how to use it. Then you download an image at a time to do at your own pace. Usually takes about 45 mins. to do a page. You have up to a week to do each image, so you can squeeze it into your spare time. Each page is done by two different people and then compared. If there are any differences, it goes to an arbitrator to decide which interpretation is correct, so the greatest possibl e > accuracy is their goal. It will be wonderful when all of their resources are available to view, and it will be FREE to everyone! I've already seen a few images popping up in their library catalog which you can see online at www.familysearch.org It's really exciting! > > The clock is ticking for ancestry.com! If you've ever wondered why it is so hard to find names in the indexes for ancestry, it's because they hire cheap help from India and other Asian countries to do their transcribing. It's hard enough for us to read some of the old handwriting on faded films in our own language, but add into the mix someone coming from a foreign language background and you have a mess! One of our Italian families from Worcester, Pasquale and Christina DeBonis, came up totally unrecognizable in their index, when we finally found it!! I knew the family was there, ever since they arrived from Italy til the day they died, they lived on the same street, in the same house, but I could not for the life of me find them in the index. Finally I had to resort to using advance searching methods, and go through the individual family names one by one until I finally found one that connected us to the right family. Whew! I notified ancestry, and they put a note on i t > for an alternate transcribed name so others could find it more easily in the future. > > Sandy > > > > Sandra Lee Blakley > 336 South 30th St. > Philomath, OR 97370 > 541-929-2259

Very interesting, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's true. But do you have a source for the information that Ancestry has outsourched their transcribing? I'd really like to know. Karen -----Original Message----- From: maworces-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:maworces-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Sandy Blakley Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 3:18 PM To: Massachusetts Worcester Subject: [MAWORCES] Ancestry.com >From what I understand, the agreement between rootsweb and ancestry when rootsweb sold their site to ancestry was that all of their databases would remain free to view (though filled with tons of ads from ancestry) and anything donated to rootsweb would remain free to view. I hope they continue to honor their agreement. Ancestry is very agressive. But they will have some competition soon as the LDS Church, who originally donated alot of their work to ancestry, is currently working on digitizing all of their records in the Salt Lake City Library to bring online at their own website, www.familysearch.org and has a huge volunteer operation going on now that anyone can help with to create indexing for all of these images. They are working presently on all of the censuses. If you want to help, go to www.familysearchindexing.org and it's simple to get going. They give you free software to download and tutorials on how to use it. Then you download an image at a time to do at your own pace. Usually takes about 45 mins. to do a page. You have up to a week to do each image, so you can squeeze it into your spare time. Each page is done by two different people and then compared. If there are any differences, it goes to an arbitrator to decide which interpretation is correct, so the greatest possible accuracy is their goal. It will be wonderful when all of their resources are available to view, and it will be FREE to everyone! I've already seen a few images popping up in their library catalog which you can see online at www.familysearch.org It's really exciting! The clock is ticking for ancestry.com! If you've ever wondered why it is so hard to find names in the indexes for ancestry, it's because they hire cheap help from India and other Asian countries to do their transcribing. It's hard enough for us to read some of the old handwriting on faded films in our own language, but add into the mix someone coming from a foreign language background and you have a mess! One of our Italian families from Worcester, Pasquale and Christina DeBonis, came up totally unrecognizable in their index, when we finally found it!! I knew the family was there, ever since they arrived from Italy til the day they died, they lived on the same street, in the same house, but I could not for the life of me find them in the index. Finally I had to resort to using advance searching methods, and go through the individual family names one by one until I finally found one that connected us to the right family. Whew! I notified ancestry, and they put a note on it for an alternate transcribed name so others could find it more easily in the future. Sandy Sandra Lee Blakley 336 South 30th St. Philomath, OR 97370 541-929-2259 --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MAWORCES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

to China - 1930 Census were indexed by the Chinese. No wonder I still can't find certain families in 1930 census. I found out from another lady who went to FGS conference and learned about this. This has you wondering.... who did those lousy census indexes 1790-1870 and 1890-1930. I wonder about those state census indexes, too. W. David Samuelsen SAMPUBCO K. Sullivan wrote: > Very interesting, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's true. But do you have > a source for the information that Ancestry has outsourched their > transcribing? I'd really like to know. > > Karen

I had a similar experience with an uncle, whose name was Maurice Crooker. I eventually located him in the census, no thanks to the ancestry index which had him listed as Mancie Crochet! In all fairness, to Ancestry.com, they did accept and post the alternate correct name which I provided. Bob Bartlett ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandy Blakley" <nwgenmama@yahoo.com> To: "Massachusetts Worcester" <maworces@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 3:17 PM Subject: [MAWORCES] Ancestry.com > >From what I understand, the agreement between rootsweb and ancestry when > >rootsweb sold their site to ancestry was that all of their databases > >would remain free to view (though filled with tons of ads from ancestry) > >and anything donated to rootsweb would remain free to view. I hope they > >continue to honor their agreement. > > Ancestry is very agressive. But they will have some competition soon as > the LDS Church, who originally donated alot of their work to ancestry, is > currently working on digitizing all of their records in the Salt Lake City > Library to bring online at their own website, www.familysearch.org and has > a huge volunteer operation going on now that anyone can help with to > create indexing for all of these images. They are working presently on all > of the censuses. If you want to help, go to www.familysearchindexing.org > and it's simple to get going. They give you free software to download and > tutorials on how to use it. Then you download an image at a time to do at > your own pace. Usually takes about 45 mins. to do a page. You have up to a > week to do each image, so you can squeeze it into your spare time. Each > page is done by two different people and then compared. If there are any > differences, it goes to an arbitrator to decide which interpretation is > correct, so the greatest possible > accuracy is their goal. It will be wonderful when all of their resources > are available to view, and it will be FREE to everyone! I've already seen > a few images popping up in their library catalog which you can see online > at www.familysearch.org It's really exciting! > > The clock is ticking for ancestry.com! If you've ever wondered why it is > so hard to find names in the indexes for ancestry, it's because they hire > cheap help from India and other Asian countries to do their transcribing. > It's hard enough for us to read some of the old handwriting on faded films > in our own language, but add into the mix someone coming from a foreign > language background and you have a mess! One of our Italian families from > Worcester, Pasquale and Christina DeBonis, came up totally unrecognizable > in their index, when we finally found it!! I knew the family was there, > ever since they arrived from Italy til the day they died, they lived on > the same street, in the same house, but I could not for the life of me > find them in the index. Finally I had to resort to using advance searching > methods, and go through the individual family names one by one until I > finally found one that connected us to the right family. Whew! I notified > ancestry, and they put a note on it > for an alternate transcribed name so others could find it more easily in > the future. > > Sandy > > > > Sandra Lee Blakley > 336 South 30th St. > Philomath, OR 97370 > 541-929-2259 > > > --------------------------------- > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MAWORCES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.518 / Virus Database: 269.21.7/1325 - Release Date: 3/11/2008 > 1:41 PM >