[or-roots] Discontinued Ancestry.com Access to the Family History Centers

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Paulette
 
No, Ancestry.com is not "part" of the LDS church. Although, if memory serves me right, the founders of the
company were members of the church, and maybe some are now. 
 
And, of course, you are not paying to see public records, per se, you are paying for the luxury of not
traveling to the courthouse in Lancaster, Garrard County, Kentucky, or the archives in Salem, Oregon, or
the NARA in Seattle. Not to mention, of course, some folks cannot travel anyway. 
 
Of course, if you were to do that traveling, you would also have to pay for the copying costs of the
records, and the time to have them copied (assuming the copier isn't broken down) and hope you are in a
place where the copier makes decent, digitized copies. . . .
 
I agree this may seem expensive, but not if you have done it the "old" way. 
 
Of course, all the computer searching in the world doesn't meet all of our genealogical needs, and there
is nothing like holding in your hand the marriage bond for your 4great-grandparents, but for most of what
we do, it at least gives us leads to follow up, and at a very reasonable cost, considering.
 
Pat (in Tucson)
 
 

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Paulette
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Subject: Re: [or-roots] Discontinued Ancestry.com Access to the Family History Centers


I have always wondered about the ancestry.com services - while they are fascinating,and the full access is
pretty amazing as far as what I have seen of it, it all seems so expensive, so I use my public library for
access. Isn't ancestry.com part of the LDS Church? I know they put a lot of money into digitizing all
those public records around the USA and the world, but do they get federal tax breaks for being a church?
It seems a little bit confusing to me if that is so, that they can then charge so much to allow people to
view data from public records. Perhaps I just do not understand the whole story behind ancestry.com.

Paulette




-----Original Message----- 
From: Robert Gust 
Sent: Mar 17, 2007 12:14 PM 
To: or-roots at www.sos.state.or.us, or-roots at www.sos.state.or.us 
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Discontinued Ancestry.com Access to the Family History Centers 



Discontinued
<http://genealogyblog.com/family-history-library/discontinued-ancestrycom-access-to-the-family-history-cen
ters-5875> Ancestry.com Access to the Family History Centers
By Leland Meitzler 
I think the notice says it all… To: Family History Center Directors in English Language Areas From:
Worldwide Support Date: March 16, 2007 Re: Discontinued Access to Ancestry.com Databases For many years,
Ancestry.com has provided ...
Genealogy Blog - http://genealogyblog.com  <http://genealogyblog.com> 

 This takes place on April 1 2007.
 
If I lose the link just Google it.
 
 

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