tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post669293952465180854..comments2023-04-20T12:46:11.858-06:00Comments on The Ancestry Insider: Monday Mailbox: Ancestry.com Consolidates Find-a-Grave CollectionsThe Ancestry Insiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02490682912125335188noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-43418725161660825522014-06-25T12:44:45.749-06:002014-06-25T12:44:45.749-06:00I wish someone would make it easy for those who do...I wish someone would make it easy for those who do not care about their "copyright" to a photo of a gravestone to simply indicate that they waive it. I assume most people would not even be taking pictures on Find-a-Grave unless just wanted to help other people, well, FIND a grave--to see it for themselves. The photographs are rarely artistic masterpieces. In most cases what you see is a snapshot of a grave. Big deal. Who needs a copyright?<br /><br /> I think it should be an automatic "opt out" on copyright unless you clearly indicate that you care about it. JudyBGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11481961917093120257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-69702265015403643552014-06-24T12:45:24.790-06:002014-06-24T12:45:24.790-06:00That is another thing I forgot to rant about. The ...That is another thing I forgot to rant about. The new US Find A Grave index displays the stone photo when you pull up the record for review. That is only going to encourage more Ancestry users to attach someone else's copyrighted photo without asking permission. TomVotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07744193321159491189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-28739568375330364802014-06-24T06:32:03.274-06:002014-06-24T06:32:03.274-06:00Gravestone photos often have copyright restriction...Gravestone photos often have copyright restrictions. Ancestry.com has had past problems with copyrighted material that they distributed without permission, so hopefully is a bit cautious on this point.Geoloverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12050268303916428230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-83722972813749303962014-06-23T23:44:26.017-06:002014-06-23T23:44:26.017-06:00First rule of FindaGrave you will not speak about ...First rule of FindaGrave you will not speak about FindaGrave! I'm still waiting for ancesty to do the too most shocking things to FindaGrave. Fist place an add this to your ancestry tree like they do on Fold3 and newspapers.com. Second they stat to actually display the tombstone pictures on people's trees. I suspect the combination of the indexes is a step in that direction. Kamdesignshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14629031307849143312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-49399159336003991622014-06-23T15:56:44.356-06:002014-06-23T15:56:44.356-06:00I just went into Find A Grave and discovered that ...I just went into Find A Grave and discovered that it NOW won't let me printout the index page for the area I am searching nor print out the photo of the grave which is posted on the site. Only recently I was able to do so. I HATE all these new changes that are so frustrating to us older folks.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12615525572685799786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-9337322731898017842014-06-23T15:21:23.335-06:002014-06-23T15:21:23.335-06:00We whole heartedly agree with your assessment of F...We whole heartedly agree with your assessment of FamilySearch engineers needing more genealogical training. In fact, many departments besides engineers, like messaging, need more training. I must say they have come a long way since the early days of new FamilySearch, having been a missionary in the SLC FH Library the past 8 years, now retired. We used to laugh and scratch our heads at how things were put together on nFS, and after complaints from us, Feedback was added and things improved. Then Get Satisfaction and Yammer were added, social media sites where more complaints and suggestions were made, and things improved. And now we are advising and suggesting to FamilySearch through a website - fsfamilytreeusergroup.com. And hopefully things, including messaging from their media, will improve. It's an on-going process.Cathy Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10461484882494138496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-29874980805522768912014-06-23T11:38:30.593-06:002014-06-23T11:38:30.593-06:00Another thing about the combination of the indexes...Another thing about the combination of the indexes (which I think is a horrible idea, below) is that the hint engine gives state specific records, searches only show the USA index. I end up attaching the two records for the same event, state specific just to get rid of the 'hint' and the USA record because I know all the state specific indexes are going to disappear sometime. Similar to another collection that was relocated and references to the original location show up as "Unknown in any language".<br /><br />Now to my rant. I work by collections only, I know what I'm looking for and I go to the right collection to find it. If someone died in New York, that is the Find A Grave collection I'd go to. Most times if there was an entry it would float up toward the top of the results. Now you get the "Here's 10,000 results! Go to it!" problem and have to narrow down the search terms, and not just by the state, you have to adjust the names etc (Exact matches etc) to get a meaningful result of 50 or less records to scan. <br /><br />Another rant now that I'm taking the time to rant. Has anybody noticed that Ancestry does not add the bare minimum of 'Text from source' into the citations that they used to, anymore? That disappeared when they forced us over to the new 'Attach a Record' format. Means that every time I attach a record I have to go and edit the citation to add all the information that was just displayed to me from the record. Think the private owners are trying to save on data storage space!<br /><br />Tom VoughtTomVotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07744193321159491189noreply@blogger.com