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Ancestry World Archives Project

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  • 19-06-2014 9:45am
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    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,314 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    After reading about Ancestry latest project to index the BMD's from the Belfast Newsletter on Claire Santry's blog the other day I thought it's about time I had a go at this keying thing. So I downloaded the software and pressed a few buttons and soon I was slowly entering up data from a newspaper of 1848...

    ...I then I stopped and asked myself why am I working for free for the largest for profit genealogy company in the world? So I deleted the software.


    Your thoughts please.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    You get cheaper subs when you're "active" (900 records every 30 days or something) and the transcribed indices are provided free once done; however if you want to do the same class of work for a completely free project there's the FreeBMD/FreeCEN/FreeREG projects and also Family Search Keying.

    I blasted through a huge number, few thousand, of BMD records for them for a US set as I wanted the index in full - turned out to not have anything relevant for me in the end though.


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    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,625 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    I'd agree with MYOB. Help out the organisations that give it away for free.

    Things are tightening up with Origins having been bought by FMP - I wonder how long before they close down the former?

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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