Ancestry
Closed, ResolvedPublic
Actions

Assigned To

Authored By

	• Samwalton9-WMF
	May 13 2020, 10:57 AM

Description

Publisher: Ancestry
Collection(s):

Description: Ancestry has a wide range of birth, marriage, death, census, and other biographical data and records. They also own Newspapers.com and Fold3, with whom we already have active partnerships.

Notes

Ancestry is our top requested resource on the Library Card platform with nearly 40 upvotes.
We've made initial contact with Ancestry via a WMF connection.

Event Timeline

• Samwalton9-WMF created this task.May 13 2020, 10:57 AM

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptMay 13 2020, 10:57 AM

• Samwalton9-WMF triaged this task as High priority.May 13 2020, 10:58 AM

Meeting organised for next week.

• Samwalton9-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)May 18 2020, 9:20 AM

We had a very positive first meeting today - our contact is going to discuss internally, particularly with their legal team, and aim to move ahead with authentication-based access, potentially via the Library Bundle.

MBinder_WMF edited projects, added The-Wikipedia-Library (Partnerships); removed The-Wikipedia-Library-Partnerships.Jun 2 2020, 7:30 PM

ARamirez_WMF moved this task from Prospects to Agreed on the The-Wikipedia-Library (Partnerships) board.Jun 2 2020, 7:42 PM

Looks like we have the go ahead to move forward, now just clarifying details.

LMTaylor subscribed.Aug 17 2020, 4:15 AM

Set up, access details uploaded, good to go. Waiting on other new partnerships for announcements.

https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/102/

• Samwalton9-WMF moved this task from Ready to launch to Completed on the The-Wikipedia-Library (Partnerships) board.Jan 27 2022, 2:34 PM

AncestryClosed, ResolvedPublicActions

Description

Event Timeline

Ancestry
Closed, ResolvedPublic
Actions