Comments on: Ancestry now digitizing onsite at NARA

By: Chris Lydiksen

Chris Lydiksen — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:13:30 +0000

3) Jaems, all of the U.S. censuses will be improved in accordance with our recent agreement with FamilySearch.

By: Darrell Wesley

Darrell Wesley — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:33:55 +0000

Is there any intention to film the complete Civil War Pension Files not just the index cards?

By: Michael Flynn

Michael Flynn — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:38:29 +0000

Some people upload scanned documents as pictures, but it would be useful to have a category of scanned document storage that incldes indexing the data on the document so others can search on it.

I would like to be able to scan all my source documents to archive them online and be able to cite them as sources.

Vital recorda on living people could have the same privacy restrictions as the tree that uploaded them.

If one of those documents is relevant to a future search, it should come up as a hit.

I expect there are hobbyists who would enjoy uploading indexed pictures of headstones, and other things.

If this feature becomes popular, it could become a significant soutce of archived, searchable documents and would be a way for individuals to preserve documents in their posession.

By: Kevin L

Kevin L — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:29:25 +0000

Hope to see big things from this relationship. Footnote gets really nice quality scans so I hope you get the same.

By: Eunita Maples

Eunita Maples — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:32:10 +0000

Would like to find out some information Lydon B. Johnson, Lady Bird her madan name was Taylor. To see if she related to me? And information on johnny Cash, his grandmother was a Taylor. Looking for more information.

By: Jaems Robertson

Jaems Robertson — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:24:59 +0000

I have found numerous errors in you indexing to the census records. People at the National Archives confirm that they hear that quite a bit.

I understand this is a human process but index books for the old census records have been available for years. I found cases where they were more accurate that your online search.

I also like the interface of Ancestrylibrary better than Ancestry.com.

By: Netzband

Netzband — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:49:46 +0000

Are you doing this back in a private place or in the second floor research room? The reason I ask is because I was there recently and noticed four people at a table next to me, all with scanners, busy digitizing whole boxes of records. Of course, I could have asked, but I became suddenly shy. I thought–either Footnote or Ancestry–maybe. Anyway, I think it’s great.

By: Tim Agazio

Tim Agazio — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:40:53 +0000

This is good news…I’ve always wondered, however…how do you choose which collections from NARA to digitize? The two you mentioned in the post sound good, but a little obscure and will probably only be useful to a narrow group of researchers.

Tim Agazio