Has anyone done data entry for ancestry or familysearch? (German, free, LDS)
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^I did some for familysearch a while back....the records weren't easily read, unfortunately, and since it was volunteer work, I gave it up after about a week.
I have done it for Family Search. I was considered a beginner, the records I got to transcribe were easy to read. I haven't done any lately. What did you want to know about it?
^I did some for familysearch a while back....the records weren't easily read, unfortunately, and since it was volunteer work, I gave it up after about a week.
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Originally Posted by EnricoV
I have. For both.
How did they compare?
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Originally Posted by Cindiana
I have done it for Family Search. I was considered a beginner, the records I got to transcribe were easy to read. I haven't done any lately. What did you want to know about it?
I became an arbitrator for ancestry a few years back.
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A few years ago I did some for ancestry. For the most part it was enjoyable. One thing I don't like is that, even though they have volunteer labor, the use of those collections is only available commercially afterwards.
Familysearch on the other hand is free. If I had the time to do so again, I think I'd go with familysearch for that reason. Have also wondered if familysearch's projects might be ones I'd be more interested in.
Data extraction for both FamilySearch & Ancestry are pretty much the same.
I don't have fundamental trouble doing extraction for a commercial entity any more than I do for a church whose policies and beliefs I don't share. Ancestry is such a universally available entity, even though I have to pay to use it, I'm all for supporting it. Users don't have to subscribe - they can go to the library and use it for free (paying for it through their taxes). Besides, it's subscription worth every penny to me, I use it daily.
Just curious, what does an arbitrator for Ancestry do?
An arbitrator reviews and compares the data entry efforts of two other people with the original document.
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Originally Posted by EnricoV
Data extraction for both FamilySearch & Ancestry are pretty much the same.
I don't have fundamental trouble doing extraction for a commercial entity any more than I do for a church whose policies and beliefs I don't share. Ancestry is such a universally available entity, even though I have to pay to use it, I'm all for supporting it. Users don't have to subscribe - they can go to the library and use it for free (paying for it through their taxes). Besides, it's subscription worth every penny to me, I use it daily.
But your mileage may vary.
That's a good point about not agreeing with a church, but I like the equal access familysearch grants all users. Ancestry is not available to those who don't live near a subscribing library. Ancestry may even be LDS owned. Not sure.
The library version is supposed to be different from home. Have you ever used the library version? I wonder if there's any substantial difference. I've chosen not to get it at home in the past b/c I was on the road with work and wouldn't have used it much. But during down time I got all I could out of it at the library. Because I seem to have exhausted its resources I hesitate to subscribe now, even with a free trial run.
FamilySearch is definitely LDS, but I'm pretty sure Ancestry isn't.
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