[Genealib] Ancestry Off Site

[Van Skaik, Patricia]

Sally,  Perhaps the first correspondent was complaining needlessly. Pat

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From: genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu [mailto:genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu]On Behalf Of Mara Munroe
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 10:13 AM
To: Librarians Serving Genealogists
Subject: RE: [Genealib] Ancestry Off Site



If it makes you feel any better, you would not be charged "same as any large library."  Ancestry and Heritage Quest vary their charges based on the service population of the library.  I only wish we could subscribe for that low a price.

 

Mara B. Munroe

Local and Family History Librarian

Oshkosh Public Library

Oshkosh WI 54901-4985

 


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From: genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu [mailto:genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu] On Behalf Of Linda van der Veur
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 10:42 PM
To: Librarians Serving Genealogists
Subject: [Genealib] Ancestry Off Site

 

Our local genealogical society has been using the personal Ancestry.com subscription for a number of years.  Now we are told that we will need to subscribe to the Library version which will cost us about $1,600.00 per year.  It's much too expensive for our small society so we will not renew the subscription.  It's very frustrating that we would be charged the same as any large library but it seems they need to squeeze as much money out of libraries that they can.  (As you can see, I'm very disgusted with Ancestry.)  What I need to know (without calling Ancestry and getting more frustrated),  could Ancestry.com be available to our local society using a subscription through our public library such as we do with Heritage Quest.  We are able to access Heritage Quest by logging on at our genealogy library and using our public library card as the password.  This might be the answer for small libraries/societies like ours.  Have any other small libraries had this same problem?  If so, how did you handle it?

 

Linda Collison van der Veur

Napa, California

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