Dear SC,

Ancestry.com has what is called a Partnership program.  Since they don't pay
everyone to transcribe the documents online, you can transcribe and submit to
this Partnership program.  And they will post it and have it in free access in
their databases.  As I understand it, you get something out of the deal too.
(I think the draw back to this though is that you need to have a full document
rather than partial transcriptions of pages.)  Often times there databases are
sketchy at best.  But this would be a good way to spread the knowledge far and
wide.  Particularly when Rootsweb needs maintenance, and the only thing
available is Ancestry, or other websites... Why not submit to more than one
spot??  I transcribe what I have, post to the list associated with the county
and state, GenWeb, Also post to GenWeb and occasionally if the document is
surname heavy (meaning that it has a great deal of one surname) I post to the
surname lists.  Also find the appropriate GenForum/FamilyHistory message boards.

Wendy

Lee and Billie Jones wrote:

 But are these census transcriptions going on the Ancestry subscription
> pages.  If I spend my time transcribing, I want to be sure it is available
> free of charge to everyone, not just the Ancestry subscribers.
>
> Billie Jones

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