Footnote more than just another site indexing scanned documents
David March 26th, 2008
Lindon, Utah based Footnote launched January 2007 and has grown to become a favorite resource for avid genealogists. What makes them different from other sites like Ancestry or WorldVitalRecords is it’s expanded resources beyond traditional records. For example,
Footnote has taken the initiative to digitize all 58,000 names inscribed into the Vietnam War Memorial. It has also correlated them with military personnel records from the National Archives and made this information searchable from within an interactive Flash application.
It is the extra steps that they have taken from public data which we already had access to, but correlating it and indexing it that makes this a unique resource.
I hadn’t even heard of Footnote until last night when I spoke with a veteran family history consultant. He said that after Ancestry pulled access to the majority of its databases, except for the few largest Family History Centers (Ogden, Salt Lake City, Mesa, others?), he has done much more with sites like Heritage Quest and Footnote.
Heritage Quest has free access through many public library sites (Davis County Library). Both Heritage Quest and Footnote have free access at any LDS Family History Center.