Go back to the way you use to be before Ancestry
I have tried and tried to make some sense of this Genealogy Monopoly that Ancestry has and now you have joined in. What happened to freedom of information act??? So How are we supposed to know if the record that comes up when you do a collections search is really your relative?? Seriously try doing an entire Italian family. Everyone has the same name. So why why why are you all making this so difficult? Money? Come on if people doing their own genealogy had money do you think they would do it? No we'd pay someone else to go through this stupid search and then go to a library and maybe you can see the original maybe not. These are OUR ancestors. There is no way we can all be part of one big tree and if we are I will never see it, I will be dead before I even find my Great Great Grandfather.
I do not want a response. I will remove my account as soon as I can transfer the information I do have.
Just so you know this used to be a hobby and now I hate getting on your or ancestry's site it is anything but enjoyable. I am so angry.
I have no faith in this program any longer
Truly, Lori Martinelli
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I understand that you are frustrated in your research, @Lori L. Martinelli, but Ancestry and FamilySearch are not the same company. They do have some cooperative agreements, as do other companies.
If you want to request help with specifics, there are many people here in the Community who are happy to try to help. For what it's worth, we are not employees of any company but a group of researchers who try to help others.
Best of luck with your research.
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I can think of two possible reasons for Lori's fury: a record custodian that's relevant to her family may have made an agreement with Ancestry, causing the records to be paywalled on Ancestry and restricted/index-only on FS; or someone attached a bunch of paywalled Ancestry sources to some of her relatives in the Family Tree.
Either way, holding FamilySearch responsible for the paywall shows a complete misunderstanding of the situation.
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I have been doing a great deal of Italian research in recent months. Ancestry has added only 1 Italian record set in 2023 and only 1 in 2022.
FamilySearch has added or updated 11 in 2023, and FS currently has 43 Italian indexing projects underway. True, some of those images will only be viewable at an Affiliate Library, but, as Julia pointed out, that's because the record holder requested that restriction.
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