Subscriptions to online research services that ultimately provide links to original resources - census and other primary and secondary sources - can be a great benefit to those who are unable to attend at a research facility. For examples, of fatally flawed trees found on visit our Errors in Published Genealogies page.Īlthough I will not discourage a researcher from purchasing a subscription to, I will not encourage such action, either. LLC has, no doubt, projected current and future profits that it could manufacture from repackaging those fatally flawed trees into other offerings on the existing and new web sites.
I shudder to think how many of those 70 million trees contain fatal flaws that even more unsuspecting novices will continue to perpetuate on into the future. So, I have to caution anyone who takes information found on either in the form of records and most particularly in the guise of ancestry "hints": unless every link in your lineage has been proven from at least two primary sources and you have viewed and retained copies of the actual documents your efforts will have resulted only in an ancestry comprised of hearsay and, if produced under the website guidance, is likely to be fatally flawed. Amongst those different types of records are secondary and tertiary transcripts. What that entity has accomplished, however, is to facilitate the easy and convenient access to many different types of records. Shame on you, for continuning to take profits through such an undertaking.Īside from donated and privately completed family lineages, which, according to the corporate information posted on the website represents "users have created more than 70 million family trees to the core Ancestry websites", the remainder of the content found on is not new, nor is it proprietary to. makes no similar assertion concerning its World Family Trees. makes it clear that donated and privately completed family lineages found via its' portal need to be verified in original sources. In my estimation, this is just one more avenue through which the genealogy world at large will continue to perpetuate the already inaccurate genealogy that is pervasive on the internet. How then, can a modern company, in all good consciousness and corporate responsibility, flog a product that is likely rife with errors to those who are largely novices and amateurs. Even Burke's time-trodden tomes are known to contain blatant and deliberate errors in lineages. Under no circumstance is it appropriate for any company to market for its own private gain donated and privately completed family lineages. Inasmuch as does not operate on a reductive credit system, having to search each item individually on the search results page creates no hardship and results in no devaluation of the subscription fee.Ĭoncerning content, has lost one gold shield for persisting in adding donated and otherwise privately completed family lineages to their list of subscription resources.
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Interestingly, the free search results differ in no material manner than the search results that are returned if a subscription had been purchased, the only difference arises in the "lock" icons becoming unlocked. How then, can I possibly see my way clear to award a 2 and one-half gold shield standard? These marks have been gained solely due to the bulk of the content, the clarity of that content, ease of navigation and free search results that are offered on this website. Essentially, however, the site continues to have the same original problems and has further compounded some of those problems by continually attempting to re-design its search facility.Ī, the nemesis of many a trusting researcher who has fallen into the "free trial" period only to discover that extracting oneself comes after much effort.
Reference Centre, Planning, Website Review Ī has undergone many changes in layout, design and offerings over the years since its debut in 1997. Antiquarian, Second-Hand & Out-of-Print Books.
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