more useful than Ancestry?

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Brendan R. Wehrung

more useful than Ancestry?

Legg inn av Brendan R. Wehrung » 13 okt 2007 04:51:11

A computer magazine that arrived today mentions among 99 other potentially
interesting web site http://www.footnote.com, citing it as useful to genealogists.
Maybe and yes.

Supposedly they have a contract to digitize the entire contents of the
National Archive (papers of the present adminstration excepted, I'd guess)
and they just seem to have made a start.

My test was Conrad Fix, son of an ancestor who served in the Civil War.
His father, same name seems to have collected and lived on the pension,
which I wanted to prove. No luck, but they did have a sequence of papers
for a Phillip Fix, who was apparently a Revolutionary War pensioner.
Hopefully they will chew their way through those pension files it's now so
expensive to get from the National Archives. All Ancestry has had is the
application card index that has been available by library interloan for
years.

This looks promising, In a few years since you can search for anything and
look at a low-res photo of the actual document. To get a decent copy you
pay $7.95 a month or $59.95 a year.

The structure is like Ancestry, but you can see what you are buying ahead
of time and make a list to execute with a month's fee.

This site is worth returning to, if they come through with their boast of
"everything."

Brendan

singhals

Re: more useful than Ancestry?

Legg inn av singhals » 13 okt 2007 15:52:08

Brendan R. Wehrung wrote:

A computer magazine that arrived today mentions among 99 other potentially
interesting web site http://www.footnote.com, citing it as useful to genealogists.
Maybe and yes.

Depends on whether you're a newbie. It seems to be
wonderful for newbies to discover "color" for their family.
It also has been useful for _checking_ whether the record
says what someone else says it said.

I did use it successfully to confirm that a specific man
signed more than one piece of paper in NYC in the 1840s.
Didn't help me FIND him, but at least I know he's probably
not fictious.

BTW: try FICKS instead of FIX.


This site is worth returning to, if they come through with their boast of
"everything."

Oh, they probably _will_; the issue is, will either of us
live that long?

Cheryl

Brendan R. Wehrung

Re: more useful than Ancestry?

Legg inn av Brendan R. Wehrung » 14 okt 2007 06:13:05

singhals (singhals@erols.com) writes:
Brendan R. Wehrung wrote:

A computer magazine that arrived today mentions among 99 other potentially
interesting web site http://www.footnote.com, citing it as useful to genealogists.
Maybe and yes.

Depends on whether you're a newbie. It seems to be
wonderful for newbies to discover "color" for their family.
It also has been useful for _checking_ whether the record
says what someone else says it said.

I did use it successfully to confirm that a specific man
signed more than one piece of paper in NYC in the 1840s.
Didn't help me FIND him, but at least I know he's probably
not fictious.

BTW: try FICKS instead of FIX.


This site is worth returning to, if they come through with their boast of
"everything."

Oh, they probably _will_; the issue is, will either of us
live that long?

Cheryl


I did further diging, do discover (to my disappointment) that they have
the same civil war pension index Ancestry has, and tell you to contact the
National Arhives for the actual files. That's a far cry from what the
magazine siad, that they were digitizing every document, but maybe that's
some time in the future. they do allow you to purchase any image you can
find for $1.95, which may be better in some cases than an expensive
subscription.

Brendan

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