[Genealib] Ancestry Card Catalog

[Kristen Smith]

Hello all,

A while back (on the Genealogy Guys podcast) I heard about a new "Card
Catalog" feature on Ancestry that would allow you to search by keyword
for individual databases within Ancestry.  (Hallelujah!)
Unfortunately, I've noticed that this feature does not seem to work in
the Library Edition.  If you go to the Search page, you'll see the link
to the card catalog in the right hand corner.  But when you click on it
you're just given an alpha list to "browse."  In the Ancestry.com
personal subscription, this link takes you to a search box where you can
actually search the titles of the databases.  

Does anyone know if this is one of the intended "differences" between
ALE and Ancestry.com, or is this just an oversight?  As librarians, I
would think we would all be very interested in taking advantage of this
search feature.

Kristen Newton Smith, M.L.S.

Reference & Genealogy Librarian

Algonquin Area Public Library

Algonquin, Illinois 60102

847-458-6060 ext. 129

 

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