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<DIV>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. </DIV>
<DIV>Thanks for the info.</DIV>
<DIV>Susie </DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><I><B>From:</B></I> <A href="mailto:ckscott3132@comcast.net">Carolyn Scott</A></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><I><B>Date:</B></I> 03/03/05 02:35:52</DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><I><B>To:</B></I> <A href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us">or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</A></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><I><B>Subject:</B></I> [or-roots] Re: Heritage Quest/Ancestry discussion. .. long!</DIV></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>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 <A href="http://www.eogn.com">http://www.eogn.com</A>.<BR>
<H2><SMALL>June 27, 2004</SMALL></H2>
<H2><SMALL>New Ancestry.com and ProQuest.com Partnership</SMALL></H2>
<P>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.<BR></P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>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.<BR></P>
<H2><SMALL>July 13, 2004</SMALL></H2>
<H3>ProQuest and Ancestry.com Agreement Announced</H3>
<P>The following is an announcement from ProQuest, the company that produces HeritageQuest Online:</P>
<DIV>To All,
<P>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.</P></DIV>
<DIV>Three key product improvements in the Ancestry Library Edition will make it more valuable than the current AncestryPlus database:
<P>1. New Interface. The user interface is redesigned for easier<BR>navigation for library patrons. The look is cleaner, more appealing, and more intuitive for users.</P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>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 <A href="http://www.proquest.com/division/pr/04/20040628B.shtml">http://www.proquest.com/division/pr/04/20040628B.shtml</A></P>
<P>For more information, please contact your ProQuest sales representative, the ProQuest sales information staff at (800) 521-0600 ext. 3344, or myself.</P>
<P>Best regards,</P>
<P>Chris Cowan<BR>Vice President, Publishing<BR>ProQuest Information and Learning</P></DIV><EM></EM><PRE class=moz-signature cols="72">--
Carolyn Scott
Auburn, WA
<A class=moz-txt-link-freetext href="mailto:ckscott3132@comcast.net">mailto:ckscott3132@comcast.net</A></PRE>
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