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.
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