tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post2049209187637064418..comments2023-04-20T12:46:11.858-06:00Comments on The Ancestry Insider: Killer Cool! Wow!!!The Ancestry Insiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02490682912125335188noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-52143404611003324722010-09-16T13:55:52.777-06:002010-09-16T13:55:52.777-06:00I noticed today that Names in Stone allows you to ...I noticed today that Names in Stone allows you to link a grave record with a New FamilySearch record. Hope that one day you can link the Names in Stone record to the FamilySearch record like you show here.Jakenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-78453306962765423792010-09-09T15:54:36.482-06:002010-09-09T15:54:36.482-06:00Just curious if this is a way around the problem w...Just curious if this is a way around the problem with "disputes"? If we shared a common ancestor, but you published one set of "facts" and i had another set of "facts" we would both be able to attach links to both are sets of facts.Celtic Treehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722841959389221214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-57171151865153260292010-09-09T11:57:06.372-06:002010-09-09T11:57:06.372-06:00A brilliant use of the internet for genealogists!A brilliant use of the internet for genealogists!eejjenningshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04941787642866566265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-20680078324758069682010-09-08T20:32:44.969-06:002010-09-08T20:32:44.969-06:00Dear Nolichucky,
I'm giving you my understand...Dear Nolichucky,<br /><br />I'm giving you my understanding, but remember I don't speak for FamilySearch and I could be wrong.<br /><br />Let me illustrate how a CRL would be different than a web link. <br /><br />Let's say that you have a Nolichucky Smith in your Ancestry.com Member Tree. <br /><br />Imagine someone finds a record about him on FamilySearch and attaches it to the new FamilySearch Tree (once that is possible). You would automatically get a shaky leaf in your tree. You could attach the record from FamilySearch to Nolichucky in your tree. Something similar happens to all the Nolichucky Smiths on all participating websites. <br /><br />You find the 1880 census record for Nolichucky Smith on Ancestry.com and attach it. The link shows up on Nolichucky Smith in the new FamilySearch Tree and so forth.<br /><br />Community Reference Links are worthwhile for pay websites--and this is important--because non-subscribers must still pay to access the linked records. Pay websites get a source of highly targeted potential subscribers. Click-through rates will outperform any other source.<br /><br />Community Reference Links are good for you, an end user, because you find out whenever anyone finds a record about your ancestors. You find out what websites have those records. You can make more informed decisions about website subscriptions. You find free records and photos.<br /><br />So you see, Community Reference Links operate more like shaky leaves and member connections than website links.<br /><br />-- The InsiderThe Ancestry Insiderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02490682912125335188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-85525344006979214352010-09-08T19:05:06.879-06:002010-09-08T19:05:06.879-06:00Dear John,
True, so true. CRLs is not an attempt ...Dear John,<br /><br />True, so true. CRLs is not an attempt to solve the issue of broken links. I would continue creating your own copy of anything you want to keep.<br /><br />While solving broken links is not the focus of CRLs, because breaks would undermine the value of the link community, FamilySearch is giving it some thought. One line of thought is to place vendors under contract to honor forever any links the vendor submitted to the community. Another line of thought would be to require insertion of a digital object identifier into the URL. (Sorry; don't have space here to explain that.)<br /><br />Thanks for the feedback.<br /><br />-- The InsiderThe Ancestry Insiderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02490682912125335188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-35318405284190833192010-09-08T11:06:18.329-06:002010-09-08T11:06:18.329-06:00How does this differ from Ancestry.com's "...How does this differ from Ancestry.com's "Web Links" that are available (though not prominently) to subscribers on the Family Trees? There, too, one links to other websites referencing the individual.Susan Clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02009218875010743399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-7750316863415092112010-09-08T08:22:29.066-06:002010-09-08T08:22:29.066-06:00The Community Reference Links you discussed sounds...The Community Reference Links you discussed sounds really great except for one big problem. Web links don't always remain constant. Webmasters seem to have a propensity for redesigning things periodically and when they do, sometimes the URL for a particular object changes. This results in the infamous broken links often seen on web sites that have a lot of off-site connections. Unless and until this problem is solved, I will continue to download everything I can to my own storage facility where I know I can find it.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00448728584336207199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-81588736198685267932010-09-08T07:03:25.335-06:002010-09-08T07:03:25.335-06:00I want! I want! *drooling*I want! I want! *drooling*Christiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14713138637659419220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-60885216977273310642010-09-08T05:30:07.285-06:002010-09-08T05:30:07.285-06:00I cannot see! I cannot see! This news is a doubl...I cannot see! I cannot see! This news is a double eye popper!Karl and Sandra Jarvishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10806159967774388453noreply@blogger.com