Comments on: With Millions Of New Records, Inflection Delivers One-Two Punch To Ancestry.com http://pando.com/2012/02/13/with-millions-of-new-records-inflection-delivers-one-two-punch-to-ancestry-com/ speaking truth to the new power Mon, 28 Jul 2014 08:18:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: markc123 http://pando.com/2012/02/13/with-millions-of-new-records-inflection-delivers-one-two-punch-to-ancestry-com/#comment-41227 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:59:54 +0000 http://pandodaily.com/?p=3803#comment-41227 you can also try recordsbase[dot]com, it’s a great and fast public records search engine, and genealogy research :)

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By: markc123 http://pando.com/2012/02/13/with-millions-of-new-records-inflection-delivers-one-two-punch-to-ancestry-com/#comment-41228 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:59:54 +0000 http://pandodaily.com/?p=3803#comment-41228 you can also try recordsbase[dot]com, it’s a great and fast public records search engine, and genealogy research :)

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By: MONYOCKY http://pando.com/2012/02/13/with-millions-of-new-records-inflection-delivers-one-two-punch-to-ancestry-com/#comment-25070 Tue, 19 Jun 2012 03:04:06 +0000 http://pandodaily.com/?p=3803#comment-25070 I was very disappointed when I signed up for the World and U.S. databases on Ancestry.com and couldn’t find anything I needed.  In fact, the Social Security Death Index used to be available on the Social Security website FOR FREE.  No longer, now I have to pay for access.

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By: Dee Dee King, CG http://pando.com/2012/02/13/with-millions-of-new-records-inflection-delivers-one-two-punch-to-ancestry-com/#comment-7410 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:51:26 +0000 http://pandodaily.com/?p=3803#comment-7410 Fact check, the Ancestry,com subscription rate for US records is FAR LESS than the $300 quoted in this article. Any resource who can beat Ancestry’s arrogant and sometimes undependable service is welcome!

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By: Gwen Gelesko http://pando.com/2012/02/13/with-millions-of-new-records-inflection-delivers-one-two-punch-to-ancestry-com/#comment-7197 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:44:20 +0000 http://pandodaily.com/?p=3803#comment-7197 I had a membership to Ancestry.com once but I always thought their fee was too high. It bothered me, too, that they would welcome my fifty years of research (with nothing but appreciation) and charge others to access it. I find fault with their search filters–they ask for specific data where possible and disregard it in bringing up matches. They never responded to my questions. I fell in love with Mucavo immediately.and can hardly wait for Inflection.
P.S. I care little how many dead people the Mormons baptize to insure their entrance to Heaven.

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By: Just Saying http://pando.com/2012/02/13/with-millions-of-new-records-inflection-delivers-one-two-punch-to-ancestry-com/#comment-7168 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:06:44 +0000 http://pandodaily.com/?p=3803#comment-7168 So are you guys sock puppets for the Mormon church, or simply .. uninformed?:

From today’s Telegraph:

“Mormon Church apologises for posthumous baptisms of Holocaust victims

The Mormon Church has apologised after members of the religion performed posthumous baptisms into Mormonism of the dead Jewish parents of famed Nazi hunter and Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/world-war-2/9083344/Mormon-Church-apologises-for-posthumous-baptisms-of-Holocaust-victims.html

Ancestry.com CEO Paul Allen is a Mormon, and has started numerous Mormon-related companies in the past:

“In 1990, Paul B. Allen (not to be confused with Microsoft cofounder Paul G. Allen) and Dan Taggart, two Brigham Young University graduates, founded Infobases and began offering Latter-day Saints (LDS) publications on floppy disks.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestry.com

So, Sarah Lacy, why not be a real journalist, and ask ancestry.com what is really going on?

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By: David Wo http://pando.com/2012/02/13/with-millions-of-new-records-inflection-delivers-one-two-punch-to-ancestry-com/#comment-7157 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:56:08 +0000 http://pandodaily.com/?p=3803#comment-7157 These genealogy sites combine their data with public records to create scarily deep dossiers about people. Think your research on Ancestry.com is private? They aggregate this stuff with all the data-scraping about you in public records. Your family members are dragged into the details about you.

Even if you try to keep a low profile on the Internet, if someone puts you into a family tree on one of these sites, you’ve been further embedded into the data-scraping.

And then they market it to anyone who pays, without concern for motivation or purpose. They could care less about providing genealogy services and all the world about selling your data… Birth details, financial details, family details, contact details.

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By: bruce b http://pando.com/2012/02/13/with-millions-of-new-records-inflection-delivers-one-two-punch-to-ancestry-com/#comment-7061 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:35:14 +0000 http://pandodaily.com/?p=3803#comment-7061 “Archives.com just got a lot more powerful: It is announcing this week the addition of hundreds of millions of family tree records from FamilySearch International … this isn’t user-generated data; it has been painstakingly vetted by expert genealogists.”

I question how painstakingly “hundreds of millions” of family trees could have been vetted. This sort of information is almost useless unless each fact cites a source. But one can hope, so I’ll check it out.

I’ve played around on Anecdote.com – I mean Ancestry.com – and the user-submitted trees are terrible. People just make shit up, and the concept of giving a source is lost on 99% of them.

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By: Shasta McBride http://pando.com/2012/02/13/with-millions-of-new-records-inflection-delivers-one-two-punch-to-ancestry-com/#comment-7054 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:53:38 +0000 http://pandodaily.com/?p=3803#comment-7054 All right, Inflection!

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By: richardhkelly http://pando.com/2012/02/13/with-millions-of-new-records-inflection-delivers-one-two-punch-to-ancestry-com/#comment-7004 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:02:21 +0000 http://pandodaily.com/?p=3803#comment-7004 Reblogged this on richard.h.kelly and commented:
Awesome up and coming company – Inflection.com.
Big data, beware.

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