It seems to me, that Ireland once had the monopoly on the Irish records. It has cost me a fortune to get records of my family or travel to Ireland to view the records in Dublin at the Library of Ireland or the Archives and also going up to the North to see their records. I welcome companies like Ancestry getting their records and hopefully more companies will obtain them so they will be even more accessible and cheaper. Why not let the Family History Library go in and film the records so they can go online free? btw, Grenham, makes lots of money doing research and writing books on Irish genealogy. He, too, will be losing $$ if the records become easy to get. My 2 cents. On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 10:22 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Please place your desire for "convenience" on the back burner.It may > appear to be everyone's wish fulfilled to have all their genealogical needs > met at one station on the road to success. Then, think again. > > What is this *really* about? > Money and control. > > This is why THE telephone company aka Ma Bell was forced to disintegrate: > Monopoly. > > When you have a monopoly, you can't compare prices, as it eliminates > completion. > > And, there is another aspect which applies to each individual. > It's how this came about> > "The Issue of The Mormon Baptisms of Jewish Holocaust Victims and > Other Jewish Dead." > http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/ldsagree.html > > Only you can decide if convenience supercedes the religious choices that > our ancestors, and we make. > > ============================== > > > The world's leading genealogy website is threatening to dominate the Irish > heritage industry, according to new claims. > > The Irish Times consultant genealogist John Grenham writes that > Ancestry.com has changed the face of Irish heritage forever. > > The website has added 750,000 transcripts from 71 Irish parishes in a move > that has taken experts by surprise. > > The Utah-based Ancestry.com was sold in 2012 for $1.6 billion to a > European private equity firm Permira Funds and had over $500 million in > sales last year. The CEO is Irish American Tim Sullivan. > > Ancestry.com already dominates the American genealogy market and may now > do the same in Ireland, according to the respected writer. > Grenham reports that Ancestry.com first made waves three years ago when > the site added transcripts of almost half-a-million pre-1880 > 47 parishes, mainly in the diocese of Meath, and were made from copies of > National Library of Ireland microfilms. > The report says that neither the diocese nor the National Library was > consulted. Grenham writes, "So eyebrows and blood pressure were raised." > > He continues, "But the transcripts weren't great and there were no record > images, so we all just went back to our cosy little squabble about making > the Library's images of parish register microfilms available online." > > However a game-changer two weeks ago has brought Ancestry.com back into > the public eye. > > Grenham reveals that Ancestry has now added 750,000 transcripts from 71 > parishes. These are accompanied by high-quality, fully browsable images of > every page. > > He writes, "These are new, full-color scans, at mouth-watering levels of > detail. In most cases they go well past 1900, and the registers covered > come from all over the country. > > "Included are the records of four parishes from the long-embargoed diocese > of Cashel and Emly, from most of Killala, from Galway, Wicklow, Dublin, > Carlow - available nowhere else online - Donegal, Tyrone." > > But all is not as it seems according to the writer. > > He adds, "The transcriptions are flawed and some of the listing detail is > deeply peculiar: 'Aughrim' is actually Aughrim Street in Dublin; 'Golden > and Kilpack' is a misreading of Golden and Kilfeacle; two unnamed registers > are actually from Bantry. But the sheer, glorious quality of the images > makes up for everything. > > "Where did Ancestry get them? The source given is 'Digitized images, > Dublin, Ireland: E-Celtic, Limited'. > > This part-Irish, part-Indian company produces parish record management > software and presumably obtained rights to the images as part of their work > with local parishes. Good on them." > > Grenham now predicts that the website may dominate Irish genealogy. > > He concludes, "Ancestry is the unchallenged colossus of online genealogy. > They already have a de facto monopoly of North American records. > "And if they continue what they've just done with Irish Catholic > registers, there is no doubt they will reach the same position here." > > > Read more: > http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/genealogy/New-fears-Ancestrycom-is-out-to-corner-Irish-genealogy-market.html#ixzz2wwkad7qJ > > ====NY-Irish Mailing List==== > Don't forget to check out the NY-Irish mailing list website. 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