Bringing Ancestry to libraries. Ancestry Library Edition – we offer Ancestry.com in libraries around the world to help people research their family history. This collection, with thousands of databases and billions of names, is essential to having a broad genealogy collection, and its valuable content is a strong complement to HeritageQuest™ Online. The Ancestry Library Edition collection has approximately 4,000 databases including key collections such as U.S. Federal Census images and. Ancestry Magazine can also be found in the Ancestry Library Edition link to the Learning Center. Be aware that, depending on the library. From: [email protected] On Behalf Of Suzanne Russo Adams Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 12:23 PM To: Subject: Re: [APG] Ancestry.com blocked at LDS libraries Dear Colleagues, The Family History Library and Ancestry.com have used IP authentication for several years to help manage the access to the Ancestry.com experience to the library. Since Ancestry and the FHL started using IP authentication several years ago, patrons at the Family History Library have not been able to use their own personal accounts on Ancestry.com. With the changes in the FHL access to Ancestry.com effective on Monday, this has become more of an issue than it was in the past. Ancestry learned a few days ago that patrons at the Family History Library had inadvertently used a deep link into Ancestry.com to bypass the IP authentication that made the computer unable to log out of a personal account, even if the user wanted to, creating a security risk. Ancestry closed that hole to protect our site security and customer privacy. Shutting down the deep link log in function on the FHL computers was not a direct or an intentional ploy to upset current Ancestry.com subscribers. Ancestry and the FHL are currently exploring solutions to allow people to gain access to their personal accounts at the Family History Library while still protecting the privacy of customers. Rest assured that we (Ancestry and the FHL) are working on a resolution--but there is not yet a timetable for its completion. SUZANNE RUSSO ADAMS, AG(r) Professional Services Desk Manager ancestry.com Part of The Generations Network You know things have gotten Ancestry's attention when they make a public pronouncement! I've gotten a lot of information on this issue from inside Ancestry. It turns out what they're saying about customer privacy is true. When you used the hack to login to your personal account at the Salt Lake Family History Library (FHL), the cookies dropped by the IP authentication were not completely replaced. As a result, some of the website behavior of the website reflected personal account behavior, and some of the behavior exhibited FHL behavior. No testing had ever been done in this weird, hybrid environment. But it only took a little testing to show very, large problems. On the one hand, there was no way to logout. On the other hand, there were several code paths that allowed one to change the username, password, and email address of that account. There were several ways to see the account owner's private data, including credit card billing address, street address, phone numbers, and any genealogical data entered about living individuals. Free Ancestry Library Edition![]() Ancestry Library Edition AccessThat means anyone could see the names, ages, address, and phone number for the account owner's minor children and name and ages for nieces, nephews, etc. If you still think Ancestry was unjustified in blocking yesterday's hack, you're out of your mind. The Ancestry Insider was a readers’ choice for the top four genealogy news and resources blogs, part of Family Tree Magazine’s “40 Best Genealogy Blogs” for 2010. He reports on the two big genealogy organizations, Ancestry.com and FamilySearch. He was named a “Most Popular Genealogy Blogs” by ProGenealogists, and has received Family Tree Magazine’s “101 Best Web Sites” award every year since 2008. A genealogical technologist, the Insider has a post-graduate technology degree and holds a dozen technology patents in the United States and abroad. He has done genealogy since 1972 and has worked in the computer industry since 1978.
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