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Walt Mossberg and Katherine Boehret of The Mossberg Solution at The Wall Street Journal review about 50 products a year. To be reviewed by him is huge — arguably a much better and a more reputable review than a Techcrunch review! On September 6, he reviewed the newly-revamped Ancestry.com site and he LOVED IT! Here’s an excerpt:
It didn’t take long for us to create a very basic tree with just a few generations, adding names, birth and death dates and locations (if we knew them). We named our trees and made them public, allowing others to use our data and vice versa. Even if you don’t make your tree public, other Ancestry.com users can still learn the name, birth year and birthplace of a deceased person in your tree. They can also anonymously contact you for more information using the Ancestry Connection Service, if you opt to let them do so.
Things got exciting when we saw shaking green leaves appear beside the names of certain members of our family. Mousing over these leaves showed us the number of source records found on each person, and in some cases showed the number of other users’ family trees that could match with ours. You can browse through these other trees, and if someone else lists your relative in their tree, you can automatically fill in blanks in your family timeline and merge those new facts into your tree.
In many cases, we could see digital images of a family member’s source records including, in the case of our relatives’ draft cards, an actual signature. If you like, you can share just the images of these documents with others via email. You can print a copy of any document, or save it to your computer’s hard drive. You can also order large, high-quality copies of some documents; prices for these range from $8 to $25.
Each person on a family tree has his or her own page with a life-events timeline and the records that you attach to the profile. This page also has room for an uploaded digital photo of the person [...]
Read the rest of his review here.
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