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  • Goodbye Legacy Family Tree

    From Doug Laidlaw@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 10 22:14:52 2017
    After 20 years as the market leader, Legacy has been acquired by
    MyHeritage, noted for charging hundreds of dollars for no searches
    except Trove and FamilySearch Family Tree, that a genealogist who is
    willing to stir himself, can do for nothing.

    Doug.

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  • From Doug Laidlaw@21:1/5 to Doug Laidlaw on Thu Nov 23 23:20:08 2017
    On 10/11/17 22:14, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
    After 20 years as the market leader, Legacy has been acquired by
    MyHeritage, noted for charging hundreds of dollars for no searches
    except Trove and FamilySearch Family Tree, that a genealogist who is
    willing to stir himself, can do for nothing.

    Doug.

    MyH just told me I had 10 matches for one person. They were the same
    Death Notice in 10 different newspapers, culled from Trove. I indexed a
    death for the Ryerson Index every day for a week, then my paper
    announced that the person was still very much alive, and we had to
    delete them all. That is the evidentiary value of a death notice.

    But really, even that is more than Legacy offered before.

    Doug.

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  • From Robert G Eldridge@21:1/5 to laidlaws@hotkey.net.au on Sat Dec 2 14:52:18 2017
    On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 23:20:08 +1100, Doug Laidlaw
    <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> wrote:

    I indexed a
    death for the Ryerson Index every day for a week, then my paper
    announced that the person was still very much alive, and we had to
    delete them all.

    That reminds me of the time when the NSW Registry put their records
    on-line and in doing so greatly extending the previous (by CD) 1945
    death cut off.

    On doing my one-name Eldridge trawl for new death records I found an
    alive person in the death index.

    After some communication with the Registry they altered;
    Alive Jane ELDRIDGE to Alice Jane Eldridge for her death in 1948.

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