[Genealib] FW: Product Watch - Ancestry.com

[david ockene]

Also, the latest edition listed by the Library of Congress is 2004.
David Ockene

>From: "Susan Scouras" <Susan.Scouras at wvculture.org>
>Reply-To: Librarians Serving Genealogists <genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu>
>To: "Librarians Serving Genealogists" <genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu>
>Subject: RE: [Genealib] FW: Product Watch - Ancestry.com
>Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 09:24:24 -0400
>
>If it had new information, material not included in the 3rd edition
>published in 2004, it should be the 4th edition, shouldn't it? To the
>best of my memory, the advertising copy also reads exactly the same as
>it did in 2004 and 2005.  I spent a lot of time studying it last year
>when I had a copy purchased in 2004 and a copy purchased in 2005 in
>front of me, and the two were identical.  One of the statements in the
>ad copy that I thought I remembered as being a repeat is that this is in
>recognition of the RedBook's 15th year in print.  Well, the first
>RedBook was printed in 1989, which makes 2004 its 15th year, not 2006.
>
>Is anyone from Ancestry listening in?  What is the copyright date of the
>RedBook offered this week, and is any of the content different from the
>3rd Edition of the RedBook sold in 2004 and in 2005?
>
>
>Susan Scouras
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>
>	Susan
>
>	We were thinking about purchasing the "New" Redbook.  How can
>you tell that this is a reprint instead of new edition with new
>information.
>
>	Thanks
>
>	Donna
>
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