Master list of "db" codes in broken Ancestry links

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When I find an old-format broken Ancestry link to a record collection, I have some luck guessing how to find the collection from the "db=" code in the link. For instance, "db=agbi" points to the American Genealogical-Biographical Index, and the current reference number in the link will still match the number used in the current URL that Ancestry uses for their AGBI database.

But some codes are not so easy to figure out, and I don't want to waste a lot of time trying. Has someone compiled a master list of these?

For instance, I'm staring at the link:

 http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=genealogy-glh07479465&h=107&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt

I found a few Google hits that seem to indicate this is how Ancestry codes individual compiled family histories and maybe local histories. But I haven't yet figured out how to find the one with code 07479465 (update: see below).

P.S. The Wikitree help page about this:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:GEDCOM-Created_Biographies 

talks about this a little at the very bottom, but the links at the bottom don't actually go to anything. IMO that bottom section could use an update.

PPS: for the link I gave above, I believe I have determined that the current link is this:

https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/10110/images/dvm_PrimSrc000162-00055-1?ssrc=&backlabel=Return&pId=107&rcstate=dvm_PrimSrc000162-00055-1%3A46%2C752%2C153%2C784%3B365%2C757%2C473%2C788%3B218%2C824%2C328%2C853%3B46%2C922%2C128%2C953%3B165%2C922%2C269%2C955%3B155%2C988%2C260%2C1021%3B159%2C1056%2C262%2C1087%3B183%2C1124%2C286%2C1154

And the "pld=107" in this link above matches the "h=107" in the link above. But I have no idea how to tell that code 07479465  in the old link corresponds to this modern link.

in Policy and Style by Barry Smith G2G6 Pilot (297k points)
edited by Barry Smith

One way is this...

Take the old db code ( db=genealogy-glh07479465 )

Put https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/ on the start to get this link: 

https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/genealogy-glh07479465

Put that in the URL bar of your browser and it will redirect to the new collection number, with the URL changing to:

https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/10110/

It is worth noting that every Ancestry collection seems to have both a text name/key AND a number. So for the example you mentioned. If you enter this URL:

https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/agbi/

it redirects to:

https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/3599/
Perfect. Thanks.
Note that the record you trying to fix the citation for can also be accessed via: https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/107:10110
 

So you could use the Ancestry Record template to reference it.

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