The following was sent to me in my recent Family Tree Newsletter. If anyone wants to
comment about the recent upset with Ancestry and the Biographical Collection, there is a
place to do so.
Pamm
September 06, 2007
Recently,
Ancestry.com published a database called
the Internet Biographical Collectionâbasically a search engine that indexed genealogy
Web sites. It also cached them, meaning it stored current versions of the sites. You'd
search the collection on a surname and get results showing an excerpt from matching sites
and links to them.
Webmasters of indexed sites protested that
Ancestry.com was profiting from their work.
Ancestry.com made the collection free. Folks pointed out you still had to register to use
it, and many felt
Ancestry.com appeared to claim the sites' content by caching it and
making it part of the Internet Biographical Collection.
Ancestry.com finally removed the
database. Read more on Ancestry.com's 24/7 blog.
Is this a loss of the exchange of genealogical information, or was
Ancestry.com wrong to
create the collection in the first place? Tell us your thoughts on the Hot Topics Forum.
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