[Genealib] FW: Product Watch - Ancestry.com

[Susan Scouras]

Okay, I'll take the slap on the wrist for "RedBook" since I didn't check
the cataloging for the proper title as I usually do.  I have been trying
to be polite and professional about this whole thing, when I really
don't feel like being polite at all.  Ancestry and Wal-Mart have a lot
in common as businesses, and evoke a lot of the same mixed feelings of
appreciation and resentment that most of us have toward large
corporations that often don't realize they can harm as well as help the
public with their power.  People trust them to be fair and honest, and
that trust has to be respected.
 
 
Susan Scouras
Librarian
WV Archives and History Library
The Cultural Center
1900 Kanawha Blvd. East
Charleston, WV  25305-0300
(304) 558-0230, Ext. 742
 

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[mailto:genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu] On Behalf Of Drew Smith
	Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 8:59 AM
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	Susan,
	 
	I think it's safe to say that the Red Book mentioned in the
March 8, 2006 Ancestry Daily News and in the May 5, 2006 Ancestry
Product Watch is the exact same as the 3rd edition first offered in
2004.  Whoever put together those announcements simply copied and pasted
the ad copy from when the book was first released, without editing it to
remove the part that makes it sound like it's just come out.  I know
that there are individuals from Ancestry who monitor the list, and I'm
sure they'll pass along the problem with the sloppy advertising to the
appropriate folks.  
	 
	(Personally, I just wish they would re-design the cover so that
it's clear that "Red Book" is two words.)
	 
	Drew Smith
	GENEALIB List Administrator

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[mailto:genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu] On Behalf Of Susan
Scouras
	Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 9:24 AM
	To: Librarians Serving Genealogists
	Subject: RE: [Genealib] FW: Product Watch - Ancestry.com
	
	
	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
	Librarian
	WV Archives and History Library
	The Cultural Center
	1900 Kanawha Blvd. East
	Charleston, WV  25305-0300
	(304) 558-0230, Ext. 742
	 

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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
		
		Genealogy Lasts Forever
		Midwest Historical & Genealogical Society
		http://skyways.lib.ks.us/kansas/genweb/mhgs/
		
		

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