[or-roots] Re: Heritage Quest/Ancestry discussion. .. long!

[Susie]

So this must refer to the message on Ancestry.com that ask if you want to
order a high quality print of a census record. 
Thanks for the info.
Susie 
 
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From: Carolyn Scott
Date: 03/03/05 02:35:52
To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
Subject: [or-roots] Re: Heritage Quest/Ancestry discussion. .. long!
 
The following articles are from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter and is
copyright 2005 by Richard W. Eastman. It is re-published here with the
permission of the author. Information about the newsletter is available at
http://www.eogn.com.

June 27, 2004
New Ancestry.com and ProQuest.com Partnership
The online newsgroups have been buzzing all week, and on Friday it became
official: one of the strongest rivalries in the genealogy business world has
been between ProQuest and MyFamily.com, operators of Ancestry.com, but now
the two are becoming business partners.

ProQuest is a major supplier of high-quality census images and digitized
copies of thousands of genealogy books. The same company also provides the
online version of the powerful PERSI genealogy database. ProQuest
traditionally has sold services only to libraries. To access ProQuest's
online databases of U.S. Census records, digitized books, and the PERSI
database, most genealogists had to visit a library that paid two thousand
dollars per year or more to subscribe to the service. A few libraries offer
in-home access to ProQuest as well.
Ancestry.com has been offering a competitive service to libraries, called
Ancestry Plus, which really was based upon the company reselling the
services of Thomson Gale, one of ProQuest's biggest competitors. That
partnership apparently soured in recent months. Ancestry.com is now dropping
the Ancestry Plus product.
Reportedly, Ancestry.com and ProQuest now have signed a two-way agreement:
ProQuest will market the Ancestry online products to the library market
under a service named Ancestry Library Edition. In return, ProQuest will
supply 20,000+ genealogy and local history books to Ancestry.com's genealogy
customers. How Ancestry.com will price and position these new online books
has not yet been announced.
It is interesting that these two companies are the only ones who supply all
or most all of U.S. Census records online. Both have invested hundreds of
thousands of dollars in creating competitive online databases of census
records. It is also interesting that ProQuest's census images are generally
more readable than Ancestry.com's images of the same records. I had hoped
that Ancestry.com would also resell ProQuests's census images; however, the
announcement makes no mention of that, and I suspect that each will continue
to sell its own version of census records separately.

July 13, 2004
ProQuest and Ancestry.com Agreement Announced
The following is an announcement from ProQuest, the company that produces
HeritageQuest Online:
To All, 
We're pleased to announce that ProQuest and MyFamily.com are working
together to distribute a new genealogy database, Ancestry Library Edition.
It will replace and supercede AncestryPlus from Gale Group.
Three key product improvements in the Ancestry Library Edition will make it
more valuable than the current AncestryPlus database: 
1. New Interface. The user interface is redesigned for easier
navigation for library patrons. The look is cleaner, more appealing, and
more intuitive for users.
2. Added Content. In addition to the vast majority of data current available
in AncestryPlus -- the U.S. Census Collection indexes and images, U.S. Data
Collection, and the UK and Ireland Collection -- MyFamily.com will be adding
a new Immigration Collection exclusively for Ancestry Library Edition.
3. Unlimited Simultaneous User Access. Rather than being limited by the
number of simultaneous users, Ancestry Library Edition will be available
anywhere within the library.
And as an added value with the launch of Ancestry Library Edition, libraries
can subscribe to this new database for the same price as their current
AncestryPlus price. Ancestry Library Edition will become available August 30
 2004.
As a reminder, MyFamily.com will only honor subscription access for
AncestryPlus through August 30, 2005. After that date, AncestryPlus will not
exist. To ensure access to a full-year subscription, libraries will want to
subscribe to Ancestry Library Edition. You can also read the official press
release by visiting http://www.proquest.com/division/pr/04/20040628B.shtml
For more information, please contact your ProQuest sales representative, the
ProQuest sales information staff at (800) 521-0600 ext. 3344, or myself.
Best regards,
Chris Cowan
Vice President, Publishing
ProQuest Information and Learning
-- 
Carolyn Scott
Auburn, WA
mailto:ckscott3132 at comcast.net
 
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