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What ancestry.com has done is taken the Italy, Select Deaths and Burials, 1809-1900 (in Italian) from familysearch.org and put them in there catalog list The information has been indexed from the death record indexes and they give the FHL film number if you want the actual record same for selected marriages and birthsrp76226 wrote:Carrubia, that seemingly makes no sense unless ancestry.com is not showing a photographic "copy" of the actual civil record. A birth document is a birth document. How could it have less information such as ages of parents on the same document as FamilySearch and still be a photographic copy of the original civil record? I cannot imagine Ancestry.com spending the time to partially translate civil records and put them on their own "form". I also have not seen records prior to 1860 for the towns I want on Ancestry.com.
Ancestry is using the FamilySearch indexes to tease the user in "buying up" to a world explorer membership to allow the user to view the index with the FHL film number.adelfio wrote:What ancestry.com has done is taken the Italy, Select Deaths and Burials, 1809-1900 (in Italian) from familysearch.org and put them in there catalog list The information has been indexed from the death record indexes and they give the FHL film number if you want the actual record same for selected marriages and birthsrp76226 wrote:Carrubia, that seemingly makes no sense unless ancestry.com is not showing a photographic "copy" of the actual civil record. A birth document is a birth document. How could it have less information such as ages of parents on the same document as FamilySearch and still be a photographic copy of the original civil record? I cannot imagine Ancestry.com spending the time to partially translate civil records and put them on their own "form". I also have not seen records prior to 1860 for the towns I want on Ancestry.com.
Marty
There are 2 ways that records are online on FamilySearch. One is actual images of records, generally for after 1861. The other is "indexes" (FS's terminology), which are transcriptions of some of the information in the record, done by FS "indexers," and are viewable using FS's search feature. These indexed records are usually from the period 1821 to 1861. Note that these indexes are different from (and contain more information than) the actual indexes that were found within the original record collections themselves.rp76226 wrote:Carubia, that seemingly makes no sense unless ancestry.com is not showing a photographic "copy" of the actual civil record. A birth document is a birth document. How could it have less information such as ages of parents on the same document as FamilySearch and still be a photographic copy of the original civil record? I cannot imagine Ancestry.com spending the time to partially translate civil records and put them on their own "form". I also have not seen records prior to 1860 for the towns I want on Ancestry.com.