FamilySearch & 1880/Ancestry.com Census Images - What Happen

[Gjest]

Both my wife and I have been able to use the "View Original Image"
feature on FamilySearch with US 1880 Census entries - until today. We
assumed it was an arrangement with Ancestry.com to show them for free
on the FamilySearch site since the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints freely provided all the work they'd done to make the
1880 Census available digitally through the extraction program.

This morning we went to look up a couple of entries and all we get is
the "FREE 14 Day Trial" advertisement from Ancestry.com - no images
available any more.

Anyone know what happened? (I hope I didn't miss a previous thread on
this subject - my apology if this duplicates any previous posts. I
checked back entries and didn't see anything.)

Thanks,

C.R.

[J. Hugh Sullivan]

On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 09:46:50 -0500, [email protected] wrote:

Both my wife and I have been able to use the "View Original Image"
feature on FamilySearch with US 1880 Census entries - until today. We
assumed it was an arrangement with Ancestry.com to show them for free
on the FamilySearch site since the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints freely provided all the work they'd done to make the
1880 Census available digitally through the extraction program.

This morning we went to look up a couple of entries and all we get is
the "FREE 14 Day Trial" advertisement from Ancestry.com - no images
available any more.

Anyone know what happened? (I hope I didn't miss a previous thread on
this subject - my apology if this duplicates any previous posts. I
checked back entries and didn't see anything.)

Thanks,

C.R.

I just went to the site and had no problem viewing the images. Of
course I have subscribed to Ancestry for years.

I might also recommend Heritage Quest through your library.

Both sites have numerous errors in the indexes and HQ is much easier
to view by state and county although not by Soundex.

I have found Sullivan spelled more than 100 ways on census indexes but
last week Sittvent was a new one. I found it by looking at first names
vice last.

Hugh

[singhals]

[email protected] wrote:

Both my wife and I have been able to use the "View Original Image"
feature on FamilySearch with US 1880 Census entries - until today. We
assumed it was an arrangement with Ancestry.com to show them for free
on the FamilySearch site since the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints freely provided all the work they'd done to make the
1880 Census available digitally through the extraction program.

This morning we went to look up a couple of entries and all we get is
the "FREE 14 Day Trial" advertisement from Ancestry.com - no images
available any more.

Anyone know what happened? (I hope I didn't miss a previous thread on
this subject - my apology if this duplicates any previous posts. I
checked back entries and didn't see anything.)

Thanks,

C.R.

If you're LDS, you need to be logged onto familysearch under
your member ID. At that point the images are available.



Cheryl

[Gjest]

On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 10:57:15 -0500, singhals <[email protected]>
wrote:

If you're LDS, you need to be logged onto familysearch under
your member ID. At that point the images are available.

Cheryl,

I was signed on. But I discovered the problem. I've been using
Firefox for quite some time, and knew for certain that I'd been able
to view the images previously with Firefox (I detest IE). But I also
just upgraded to Firefox 2.0 in the past couple of weeks. After you
and Hugh indicated you're having no problem, I got curioius and tried
accessing the 1880 Census images using Opera (I keep Opera handy as a
backup means of avoiding IE). The Census images open up without
problem (as long as I'm logged on to FamilySearch, of course).

After it opened with Opera, I went back to check Firefox again, and it
still won't open the Ancestry.com census images even though I'm signed
on. I suspect something changed in the new v2.0 of Firefox that's
making it incompatible with the FamilySearch/Ancestry.com images.
Strange, but at least it's resolved using Opera.

Thanks to both you and Hugh. I knew it worked before, so I figured
there was a glitch - little did I know the glitch was in an upgraded
browser at my end. (Darn! And here I thought Firefox was near
perfect! <<g>>) At least I can still avoid IE by using Opera for this
purpose.

C.R.

[J. Hugh Sullivan]

On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 17:01:28 -0500, [email protected] wrote:

On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 10:57:15 -0500, singhals <[email protected]
wrote:

If you're LDS, you need to be logged onto familysearch under
your member ID. At that point the images are available.

Cheryl,

I was signed on. But I discovered the problem. I've been using
Firefox for quite some time, and knew for certain that I'd been able
to view the images previously with Firefox (I detest IE). But I also
just upgraded to Firefox 2.0 in the past couple of weeks. After you
and Hugh indicated you're having no problem, I got curioius and tried
accessing the 1880 Census images using Opera (I keep Opera handy as a
backup means of avoiding IE). The Census images open up without
problem (as long as I'm logged on to FamilySearch, of course).

After it opened with Opera, I went back to check Firefox again, and it
still won't open the Ancestry.com census images even though I'm signed
on. I suspect something changed in the new v2.0 of Firefox that's
making it incompatible with the FamilySearch/Ancestry.com images.
Strange, but at least it's resolved using Opera.

Thanks to both you and Hugh. I knew it worked before, so I figured
there was a glitch - little did I know the glitch was in an upgraded
browser at my end. (Darn! And here I thought Firefox was near
perfect! <<g>>) At least I can still avoid IE by using Opera for this
purpose.

C.R.

Of course MS has recently released another browser to avoid for the
time being - IE7.

Why do you prefer Firefox to Opera?

Hugh

[Gjest]

On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 22:53:57 GMT, [email protected] (J. Hugh
Sullivan) wrote:

Why do you prefer Firefox to Opera?

To be honest Hugh, it's been more a matter of "feel" to me - not quite
quantifiable. However, it does seem that I've found more sites that
don't quite work right with Opera than with Firefox. I haven't kept a
log, but compatibility has been better with Firefox (until last week).
The FamilySearch site is the first one in a while that I've not been
able to get full functionality (and only after the "up"grade). This
is the 2nd glitch I've found with version 2.0 though, so I may be
switching back to Opera. For me, there's only a very small preference
difference between the two - assuming they fix whatever's happening in
v2.0 that wasn't happening to me two weeks ago with Firefox.

The 2nd glitch with v2.0 I also hadn't known about until today. I
took a look at a Firefox newsgroup today after finding the
FamilySearch site glitch, to see if anyone else was seeing anything
substantially wrong with v2.0. I only found one, but it was a fellow
who complained that Firefox v2.0 was hogging more than 100 megabytes
of RAM. No one had responded, so I went into Task Manager and found
that mine - while not that bad - was still the biggest memory hog of
everything working. It wasn't bad at 61 megs (I've got a gig), but
Opera was only 2/3 of that, and nothing else running at the time was
even close behind those. Even I.E. only took up a little over 14 megs
when I checked it.

(I think I'm talking myself back into Opera <<<g>>>.)

C.R.

[f/fgeorge]

On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 09:46:50 -0500, [email protected] wrote:

Both my wife and I have been able to use the "View Original Image"
feature on FamilySearch with US 1880 Census entries - until today. We
assumed it was an arrangement with Ancestry.com to show them for free
on the FamilySearch site since the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints freely provided all the work they'd done to make the
1880 Census available digitally through the extraction program.

This morning we went to look up a couple of entries and all we get is
the "FREE 14 Day Trial" advertisement from Ancestry.com - no images
available any more.

Anyone know what happened? (I hope I didn't miss a previous thread on
this subject - my apology if this duplicates any previous posts. I
checked back entries and didn't see anything.)

Thanks,

C.R.
There was a 3 day free weekend going on until today.

[Hugh Watkins]

[email protected] wrote:

On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 22:53:57 GMT, [email protected] (J. Hugh
Sullivan) wrote:


Why do you prefer Firefox to Opera?


To be honest Hugh, it's been more a matter of "feel" to me - not quite
quantifiable. However, it does seem that I've found more sites that
don't quite work right with Opera than with Firefox. I haven't kept a
log, but compatibility has been better with Firefox (until last week).
The FamilySearch site is the first one in a while that I've not been
able to get full functionality (and only after the "up"grade). This
is the 2nd glitch I've found with version 2.0 though, so I may be
switching back to Opera. For me, there's only a very small preference
difference between the two - assuming they fix whatever's happening in
v2.0 that wasn't happening to me two weeks ago with Firefox.

The 2nd glitch with v2.0 I also hadn't known about until today. I
took a look at a Firefox newsgroup today after finding the
FamilySearch site glitch, to see if anyone else was seeing anything
substantially wrong with v2.0. I only found one, but it was a fellow
who complained that Firefox v2.0 was hogging more than 100 megabytes
of RAM. No one had responded, so I went into Task Manager and found
that mine - while not that bad - was still the biggest memory hog of
everything working. It wasn't bad at 61 megs (I've got a gig), but
Opera was only 2/3 of that, and nothing else running at the time was
even close behind those. Even I.E. only took up a little over 14 megs
when I checked it.

(I think I'm talking myself back into Opera <<<g>>>.)

basically google & co test their stuff with MS IE 7 and Firefox

Firefox 2 on Mac OS 10.4.8 hangs now and then
as I am getting used to tabbed browsing since returning to mac OS in the
summer after 5 years with windows

so I have reinstalled Firefox 1.5.0.7 which just had a minor auto update

writing this with Mozilla 5
MS IE is now history on the mac and no longer supported by MS
so I use MS IE 7 on WinXP sp 2 on a virtual PC on Parallels
which I installed in order to us Family Tree Maker 16
for odd jobs like online banking

Safari I only use with the Apple site

google linux user swear by Firefox too
but I have had neither time
nor need to learn linux yet
because my credit still at the macShop in the Bullring in Birmingham
England


Hugh W
--

new phone = new daily blog
http://upsrev622.blogspot.com/

family history
http://hughw36.blogspot.com

[Gjest]

On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 12:30:00 GMT, f/fgeorge <[email protected]>
wrote:

On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 09:46:50 -0500, [email protected] wrote:

Both my wife and I have been able to use the "View Original Image"
feature on FamilySearch with US 1880 Census entries - until today.
[snip]

There was a 3 day free weekend going on until today.

We've used it well before the 3-day free weekend. It turned out to
apparently be a change in Firefox (our browsers) when they "up"graded
to v2.0 recently. Opera will still pull up the image OK as long as
we're signed in to the FamilySearch web site.

C.R.