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Family Data Collection - Individual Records
- Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Individual Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.
- A unique database containing 5 million genealogical records (20 million names) that were saved from destruction after being rejected from scientific studies. The Family Data Collection records were created while gathering genealogical data for use in the study of human genetics and disease. Compiling data for genetic research does not require the same type of documentation as traditional genealogical research. The genes themselves verify relationships and qualify or disqualify a person from a particular study. Citing the source of every genealogical fact in the electronic gene pool was deemed unnecessary and cost prohibitive by medical researchers. Millions of individual records were created from birth, marriage and death records; obituaries; probate records; books of remembrance; family histories; genealogies; family group sheets; pedigree charts; and other sources. The records collected that did not fit a specific study became the project's "by-products" and were schedule to be discarded. After viewing the quality of the source material used to create the gene pool and despite the absence of cited documentation, the electronic rights to the data were purchased, rather than see it destroyed.
- Thousands of families are known to be present in the database, containing 20 million names in 5 million records. This data covers the entire U.S. for a wide expanse of years. At a minimum, each record contains an individual's name, date and place of birth, and the name of his or her father. A complete record will contain the following information for an individual: Name, Date and Place of Birth, Date and Place Married, Date and Place of Death, Name of Spouse, Name of Father, Name of Mother, Use this database as a finding tool, just as you would any other secondary source. When you find the name of an ancestor listed, confirm the facts in original sources, such as birth, marriage, and death records, church records, census enumerations, and probate records for the place where the even took place.
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Rick Pierpont
Jillaine Smith
David Wilson
Rick Pierpont
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Jillaine, I agree. That is probably true for all the "Edmund West" sources.
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by Rick Pierpont
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FYI most projects on wikitree do not accept this as a source. Puritan Great Migration project will delete it from profiles.
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The "fall-out" of Cambridge Analytica, Facebook (likely being a huge one), and other deceptive data mining practices may still be in their infancy as many of us possibly just became aware via GDPR. Some scenarios potentially linked to Family Data Collection are at PDF posted by Susan McNelley a few years ago. Some sources that I had cited from over-seas (municipality books) and had linked to threads at the Forum at genealogy.net also appear to be having some problems currently.
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by David Wilson
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The links on the page are broken. It appears that ancestry.com has removed this date base from their search results. If anyone knows for sure, please post a message here.
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by Rick Pierpont
b Paulson
the Family Data Collection - Individual Records link (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=4725) goes nowhere, leads to nothing, is of no value to researchers. Perhaps it needs to be updated?
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by b Paulson