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The Future of Family History TechnologyChallenges, Opportunities, and Data Sets
© 2013 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.
A trip to the ancestral homeland Microfilm @ FHC
Images online and searchable
“Ready when you are”
Convenience of Records Access
Patricians and prominents
Compiled genealogies
Ancestral File, World Family Tree,
etc.
“Ready when you are”
Availability of Research Conclusions
W. Danny Hillis, The Pattern in the Stone
1880 U.S. Census IndexIndex onlyCD-ROM (56 disks)50 million records17 years to complete11.5 million hours of work??? Volunteers$49
Name, age, sex, race, marital status, occupation, relationship to head of household, birthplace, father’s birthplace, mother’s birthplace
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1940 U.S. Census IndexIndex and ImagesWorld Wide Web132 million records140 days to complete4.5 million hours of work160K volunteers$0
Name, age, sex, race, marital status, relationship to head of household, birthplace, residence in 1935
The Costs of Indexing
W. Danny Hillis, The Pattern in the Stone
