Has anyone subscribed to One World Tree? Is it worth it? I had a
subscription to Ancestry for a year, do you think I'd find new info or
is it the same stuff presented differently?
Laurie
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Tara
Re: One World Tree
I don't subscribe to One World Tree, but I just had my annual phone call
from Ancestry a few days ago, and they tried to sell it to me and I asked a
few questions about it. The impression I got was that they have taken all
their family trees, the Rootsweb trees and the trees they acquired when they
bought Genealogy.com and put them into a format similar to GenCircles, where
it finds likely matches to your data. It sounded like a rehash of the same
old stuff to me so I passed. Maybe I misunderstood the concept though or the
lady didn't explain it well. Hopefully, someone with a subscription can
clarify...
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from Ancestry a few days ago, and they tried to sell it to me and I asked a
few questions about it. The impression I got was that they have taken all
their family trees, the Rootsweb trees and the trees they acquired when they
bought Genealogy.com and put them into a format similar to GenCircles, where
it finds likely matches to your data. It sounded like a rehash of the same
old stuff to me so I passed. Maybe I misunderstood the concept though or the
lady didn't explain it well. Hopefully, someone with a subscription can
clarify...
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Tara Larkin
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"Laurie Skidmore" <lorishistory@comcast.net> wrote in message
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Has anyone subscribed to One World Tree? Is it worth it? I had a
subscription to Ancestry for a year, do you think I'd find new info or is
it the same stuff presented differently?
Laurie
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CLARK1528
Re: One World Tree
I contacted Ancestry when One World Tree first came out. From what they told
me, it is merely a more thorough search engine of their material designed so
people don't have to search as thoroughly on their own. They figured some
people were willing to pay for the service of identifying possible matches from
various databases.
Jennifer Clark
me, it is merely a more thorough search engine of their material designed so
people don't have to search as thoroughly on their own. They figured some
people were willing to pay for the service of identifying possible matches from
various databases.
Jennifer Clark
Has anyone subscribed to One World Tree? Is it worth it? I had a
subscription to Ancestry for a year, do you think I'd find new info or is
it the same stuff presented differently?
Laurie
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Kathi Reid
Re: One World Tree
Laurie Skidmore wrote:
Ancestry OneWorldTree is an intelligent search engine that links
Ancestry records to family trees through a process Ancestry calls
"stitching" – pooling data from Ancestry databases and grouping them
by person.
Right now, Ancestry is stitching the 1930 census information building
trees from the relationship information in the census and then will
start stitching all of its datasets, including all the census and
vital records, grouping sources by person.
OneWorldTree will eventually validate the user-submitted family trees
by verifying them against Ancestry databases of original documents,
such as census records.
For more info about OneWorldTree, read
http://searchforancestors.com/archives/ ... dtree.html
OneWorldTree offers a free trial so you can decide for yourself if you
will find more info. Keep in mind that the datasets are just
beginning to be "stitched" to the family trees.
Kathi
Has anyone subscribed to One World Tree? Is it worth it? I had a
subscription to Ancestry for a year, do you think I'd find new info or
is it the same stuff presented differently?
Laurie
Ancestry OneWorldTree is an intelligent search engine that links
Ancestry records to family trees through a process Ancestry calls
"stitching" – pooling data from Ancestry databases and grouping them
by person.
Right now, Ancestry is stitching the 1930 census information building
trees from the relationship information in the census and then will
start stitching all of its datasets, including all the census and
vital records, grouping sources by person.
OneWorldTree will eventually validate the user-submitted family trees
by verifying them against Ancestry databases of original documents,
such as census records.
For more info about OneWorldTree, read
http://searchforancestors.com/archives/ ... dtree.html
OneWorldTree offers a free trial so you can decide for yourself if you
will find more info. Keep in mind that the datasets are just
beginning to be "stitched" to the family trees.
Kathi
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Hugh Watkins
Re: One World Tree
"Kathi Reid" <kathi.reid@gmail.com> wrote in message
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ancestry are trying to add value to their databases and charge for it
most of the people I am researching are not on line
records in parishes where permission was not granted for filming
for mee the only way forwards is visitng an archive or paying a researcher
to do it for you
Hugh W
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Laurie Skidmore wrote:
Has anyone subscribed to One World Tree? Is it worth it? I had a
subscription to Ancestry for a year, do you think I'd find new info or
is it the same stuff presented differently?
Laurie
Ancestry OneWorldTree is an intelligent search engine that links
Ancestry records to family trees through a process Ancestry calls
"stitching" - pooling data from Ancestry databases and grouping them
by person.
Right now, Ancestry is stitching the 1930 census information building
trees from the relationship information in the census and then will
start stitching all of its datasets, including all the census and
vital records, grouping sources by person.
OneWorldTree will eventually validate the user-submitted family trees
by verifying them against Ancestry databases of original documents,
such as census records.
For more info about OneWorldTree, read
http://searchforancestors.com/archives/ ... dtree.html
OneWorldTree offers a free trial so you can decide for yourself if you
will find more info. Keep in mind that the datasets are just
beginning to be "stitched" to the family trees.
ancestry are trying to add value to their databases and charge for it
most of the people I am researching are not on line
records in parishes where permission was not granted for filming
for mee the only way forwards is visitng an archive or paying a researcher
to do it for you
Hugh W
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D. Stussy
Re: One World Tree
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Laurie Skidmore wrote:
For the things that I looked into it for, it WAS the same stuff presented
differently.
Has anyone subscribed to One World Tree? Is it worth it? I had a subscription
to Ancestry for a year, do you think I'd find new info or is it the same stuff
presented differently?
For the things that I looked into it for, it WAS the same stuff presented
differently.
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Kathi Reid
Re: One World Tree
On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Kathi Reid wrote:
Ancestry OneWorldTree is an intelligent search engine that links
Ancestry records to family trees through a process Ancestry calls
"stitching" pooling data from Ancestry databases and grouping them
by person.
Right now, Ancestry is stitching the 1930 census information building
trees from the relationship information in the census and then will
start stitching all of its datasets, including all the census and
vital records, grouping sources by person.
...And just what do they plan on doing when things DON'T match? Census records
tend to have misspellings and use nicknames instead of birth names.....
They offer it as alternative information. Ancestry says "We have
combined matching information from multiple sources into easy-to-view
family trees. Just click on a Name to see the tree. You can then
specify the correct choices for items with alternates."
"About alternate information - Some variation in record details is to
be expected. To decide which variation you prefer, compare the
information shown and then explore the trees and records where it was
found."
When I search for John Peter (first and middle name), I was offered
records that showed John, John Peter, and Johannes Peter. I was also
given a choice of alternate birthdates which were different by a few
days. As it turned out, in this case, they were all the same person.
Ancestry grouped them together as alternates, but let me decide if the
records were correct.
Kathi
For more info about OneWorldTree, read
http://searchforancestors.com/archives/ ... dtree.html
OneWorldTree offers a free trial (available at the above website) so you
can decide for yourself if you will find more info.
Keep in mind that the datasets are just
beginning to be "stitched" to the family trees.
Kathi
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