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From: Caroline Bradford <>
Subject: Re: [Ess] Ancestry's Essex archives etc
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:45:12 +0200
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In-Reply-To: <1277D7E07B2D4847B900B7F0AC5EB6F3@colleens>


The vast majority of Ancestry's data derive from national and local archives and the originals remain there, to be accessed and used just as they were for generations of family historians before Ancestry existed.

The raw data does not belong to Ancestry - most of the UK data is provided on licence - though the transcriptions are their copyright.

The small proportion of "user submitted" data should be regarded with the utmost circumspection. Far from originating from family collections, many of the trees which are submitted to Ancestry are cobbled together from the work of others, with mistakes perpetuated from tree to tree.

Caroline

On 26 Sep 2010, at 15:49, "colleen" <> wrote:

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