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From: "Barbara Vines Little, CG" <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Ancestry partnership: Respond to NARA's requestfor feedback
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:47:37 -0400
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In the best of all worlds, every document we print out would give us the
option of a source citation in CMS, Evidence, MLA or whatever style and
have an intuitive interface that would find the record we are looking
for in a millisecond. In the real world we need to be grateful that we
have multiple companies (and Footnote and Ancestry are not alone here)
that are willing to scan and index the records we want to preserve and
have access to. No one company or even two companies have the resources
to do everything we want or that NARA needs help in preserving.

We should be counting our blessings that we have an archivist who is
actively seeking workable solutions to the preservation problem. I fact
it wouldn't hurt to send him a thank you.

Barbara Vines Little, CG
Dominion Research Services
PO Box 1273
Orange, VA 22960

540-832-3473


CG, Certified Genealogist, is a service mark of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under
license by board certified genealogists after periodic evaluation, and the board name is registered in the
US Patent & Trademark Office.



Nancy W. wrote:
> If I remember correctly, when the partnership between Footnote and NARA was announced, Footnote would be able to charge for their data for 5 years, after that it would be free. That may have only applied to the NARA records they are digitizing.
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> NARA has so many records that we want to access, maybe it is a good idea to partner with other companies to speed up the process and to share the expenses.
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> Nancy Wright
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>> The value of digitizing more records is evident to historians and
>> genealogists. Since NARA has also partnered with Footnote.com to do the same
>> type of work on other NARA record groups, with splendid results, my
>> questions are:
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>> -- Isn't Footnote.com a better venue for our access to additional NARA
>> record groups than Ancestry.com?
>> -- Isn't Footnote's corporate policy a little easier to take than
>> Ancestry's?
>> -- Isn't Footnote's interface easier to navigate?
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>> Maybe NARA feedback might applaud the digitization but recommend increasing
>> the scope of the partnership with a company you prefer.
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>> Just thinking out loud here.
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