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From: "Gil Bunker" <>
Subject: Fw: GenCAP News BROADCAST-15 Aug 2000
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 00 21:42:24 PDT

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> Date: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 17:37:34
> From: GenCAP
> Subject: GenCAP News BROADCAST-15 Aug 2000
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> NEHGS SUMMER CONFERENCE CANCELED
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> The New England Historic Genealogical Society has canceled its summer
> conference in Farmington, CT (listed in the "Ancestry Daily News" of 7
> August
> 2000). The conference has been canceled due to the unexpectedly small
> number of
> registrations. It will be rescheduled for next July.
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> CENSUS IMAGES ONLINE COMING TO ANCESTRY.COM
> Images Online(tm) Enables Members to View and Print Images of Census
> Records Instantly
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> Ancestry.com, part of MyFamily.com, Inc., today announced the launch of
> an immense
> project to create digitized images of every record from the U.S. Federal
> Census between
> the years 1790 and 1920. These census records, which Ancestry.com
> recently obtained
> from the National Archives, contain more than 450 million names.
>
> "The ability to view census records online is one of the most
> significant
> advancements in online genealogy to date," said Curt Witcher, manager of
> the
> Historical Genealogy Department of the Allen County Public Library.
> "Viewing
> original documents online not only saves people time and money by
> enabling them
> to view census records in their own living room, but original documents
> contain
> a wealth of information and may help researchers go beyond what they can
> find in an index."
>
> Once these images are launched as part of the new Ancestry.com Images
> Online(tm)
> service, the original census records will be viewable and printable
> online with
> an Ancestry.com Census Subscription. Through Images Online(tm), these
> census
> records will more faithfully reproduce original documents than mere
> indexes or
> bi-tonal, black and white images available with competitive offerings.
>
> The first images will be posted this fall, and subsequent postings will
> bring hundreds of
> millions of images to the site throughout the year. With the addition of
> these
> new census records, more than 1 billion records will be fully searchable
> on
> Ancestry.com by the end of this year.
>
> "By offering images of these census schedules, Ancestry.com is taking
> online
> genealogy to the next level," said Andre Brummer, general manager of
> Ancestry.com. "Census records are one of the most significant sources of
> family
> history information. Making original documents available online enables
> people
> to view and print documents that have traditionally been stored on
> microfilm and
> are only available in limited numbers of archives and libraries
> throughout the
> nation."
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> SOURCE: Ancestry Daily News - 15 Aug 2000
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