Read the details in the following article from the Lebonon Daily News:
Roots & Branches: State historical society teams with Ancestry.com
By JAMES M. BEIDLER
Teamwork and collaboration have been the bywords of the genealogical world the last few years as groups both profit and nonprofit have attempted to make more resources better available to researchers.
A great example of this is the recently announced partnership between the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and Ancestry.com, which will put some 7 million records online from the society’s collections, including records culled from both the microfilm and extensive book collections of the society.
“We had been talking about a year with Ancestry,” said Lee Arnold, the society’s library director. “We’re hoping that this will be the first of several phases of a partnership.”
Included are everything from church, cemetery and undertaker records to county ledgers and genealogical scrapbooks. Some of the records will be database abstracts while others will have images of actual records, Arnold said.
Arnold said that probably the best feature of the partnership is how these collections will now be fully keyword searchable by subject. With this type of indexing feature “Ancestry has done the searching for you,” he said.