Birgit-
Please forgive a clumsy American if what I say is somehow offensive to German priorities of which I might not be aware.
I think you are on the right track for starting a movement. It seems that a group like Ancestry.com would be thrilled to store any documents it can obtain and make them available to the public. They are not a perfect entity, as currently documents from across the sea are only available to US users for a premium subscription fee, not free like most of the US documents. But there are LDS Family Research Centers here that allow you to come in and use their access for free, as well as the libraries (I'm told, I can't afford the card), so access can be accomplished with a little effort for those of us who can't afford the subscription. They also allow you to post your own documents to the site for the public use of others, or as a private depository to be seen only by your family by using privacy priority settings. I would imagine you could negotiate with someone like Ancestry.com about how the information should be made available.
I don't know if their service is as widely used in Germany as it is here, but it is our most central location for genealogical information access. I wish more of the info on it did not require a subscription, but at least the information is there and available, if one only has the desire to get to it.
Hoping for open cooperation soon,
Lynn Sexton
Eugene, Oregon USA
Re: [FamNord] Kirchenbücher / Dokumente Online
Monday, May 3, 2010 10:17 AM
Lynn and others,
I have full access to ancestry.com via my public library. I think that I can even access it at home through the library's website.
Personally, I think it is really unfair to have to pay for something that is public information. I don't expect to write to some office and get free copies but if the records have been computerized, we should be able to access them.
John Dornheim
Hallo Mitforscher,
Hier ist eine Idee
here is an idea:
man wendet sich an die Mormonen, die ja schon eine riesige kostenlose Databank haben. Sie sind sicher bereit, neue KB aufzunehmen.
Approach the Mormon Church. They already have a giant free database. I am certain, they will agree to accept new church records.
Das man eingige Filme in Deutschland nicht einsehen kann, hängt vielleicht von den deutschen "privacy" Gesetzen ab? Haben die sich nicht in den letzten 2 Jahren geändert?
The fact that you cannot look at some films in Germany may have something to do with the German privacy law?. Haven't they changed in the last 2 years?
Ich finde, jeder hat das Recht, die Kirchenbücher (natürlich nicht im Original) nach seinen Ahnen zu durchforschen.
I think it is everyones right to search through the church records (of course, not the originals) to search for their ancestora.
Bitte machte es möglich für uns!
Please make it possible for us!
Susanne
(USA)
I'm not so sure about access.
If somebody spends years of research, money and time on a project why should she or he not restrict the access or may even ask for a fee ?
It is up to the individual to do it. My site is free and is visited by 1000 +/- visitors per day. Total cost to today approaching € 10000.- plus about 14 years of work and ongoing. Cost per month about € 100.00 or CDN/US $ 130.00 New server just bought for a little over € 1000.- Give me one reason why I not charge for the service I provide if I wanted to? An interesting proposal was presented to me by the LDS church. They would take over my site and pay me per click/visitor. Somewhere along the line they charge for their service, with other words the service is not free.
We are all different in the approaches of things we do and should respect that. It comes down sharing.
Uwe
Ex Altona
Uwe-Karsten Krickhahn
Medicine Hat, Alberta
Canada
www.kartenmeister.com
Erweiterte Suchmöglichkeiten in deutscher Anleitung auf
http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Kartenmeister