Thank you WorldVitalRecords
I would like to thank WorldVitalRecords for
publicly making a statement clarifying
their number of visitors. I was in a bit of a bad mood last night when I wrote the
post so I hope that it wasn’t taken to harshly.
Now that I have a little free time I was planning on
spending some time doing a couple of searches on WorldVitalRecords. Earlier I had
been able to do a search for Ohio land records and I found the name of one of the
people I am working on. I didn’t have much time to spend on it so I put it off until
tonight. Now I go back and I can not find the Ohio land records anymore. Is there
something I’m missing? I tried doing a search for this person and it just searched
SSDI. Does anyone know where I can access this information again? This is currently
the person that I am stuck on and I’m hoping this data can help break down a couple
of barriers that I’m facing.
Popularity: 31% [?]
WorldVitalRecords.com
I had heard about WorldVitalRecords.com last
week when a press release was sent saying that they had geocoded the SSDI. I took
a look and really didn’t find any information that wasn’t available at other places.
The useful part is that you can search for SSDI information based on a zipcode. What
I didn’t like is that you need to know exact death years and location in order to
bring up results. There might be a way around this, but first glance at their homepage
didn’t show me how.
ProvoLabs, which develops WorldVitalRecords,
says this is the first in a long list of ideas that they will be bringing to genealogists.
Seeing how Paul Allen, one of the founders of Ancestry.com, is helping to head this
up, it is possible that this site could become more useful in the future. I did some
contract work for Paul Allen and Dan Taggert, the founders of ProvoLabs, and I found
them to be very insightful in the projects that they are working on and very purposeful
in what they do. I know that they will do whatever they can to make WorldVitalRecords
successful and I look forward to seeing what they can bring us.
For a different view of this new service provided by WorldVitalRecords check out the Genealogy
Blog.
Popularity: 21% [?]