Another great success story from WorldVitalRecords.com
We love to keep track of the many success stories that our customs have when working with the ever-growing collection of databases on WorldVitalRecords.com.
There are 2 that I repeat to others when they ask about how things are going at WorldVitalRecords.com.
The first of many examples that I use happened at the FGS conference in Ft. Wayne Indiana this past August. A nice lady from one of the large state genealogy societies came by the World Vital Records booth. She said that she has a rate name in her family that she uses to see how complete a genealogy site's databases are. The rare name that she uses for this test is "Frink." She said that in most other genealogy database sites, she finds very little useful information about the Frink family.
I typed then surname "Frink" into our global search and even I was amazed by the search result. The top search result in the Family Histories was a small database that is part of the Quintin collection entitled "Records From the Bible of Eliza Gold Frink, Brunswick County, North Carolina." This small database contained 18 pages from the 1832 family bible of Eliza Frink. These pages contained the pedigree charts and family name lists for 8 generations of the Frink family! She had never heard of Eliza Frink, but she immediately recognized some of the names on those pages from the Frink Family Bible. This was a gold mine of family history research for her.
The next example of an amazing success on WorldVitalRecords.com happened just this week. We had a prospective business partner from Seattle that came to Provo to visit with us. She was not that familiar with our site or with genealogy database sites in general. I explained what we did and how our business model worked. I wanted to give her an example of some of the databases that we had on our site. I asked her where her family was from. I navigated to the state of Washington to see all of the data that we had for Washington state. I scrolled down through the roughly 50 databases that we have that pertain to Washington state. About halfway down the list, she saw the Deer Park Tribune and the Deer Park Union newspapers. These are part of the SmallTownPapers® collection that we have on WorldVitalRecords.com.
She exclaimed, "that is where I am from." She then began to browse through the newspaper and found where both her husband and herself were listed as being on the honor roll in their high school. Both of us were amazed by her quick find. We printed off the newspaper pages so that she could take them back to Seattle to show to her husband. She quickly gained an understanding of the power of the ever-growing database collection on WorldVitalRecords.com.
There are 2 that I repeat to others when they ask about how things are going at WorldVitalRecords.com.
The first of many examples that I use happened at the FGS conference in Ft. Wayne Indiana this past August. A nice lady from one of the large state genealogy societies came by the World Vital Records booth. She said that she has a rate name in her family that she uses to see how complete a genealogy site's databases are. The rare name that she uses for this test is "Frink." She said that in most other genealogy database sites, she finds very little useful information about the Frink family.
I typed then surname "Frink" into our global search and even I was amazed by the search result. The top search result in the Family Histories was a small database that is part of the Quintin collection entitled "Records From the Bible of Eliza Gold Frink, Brunswick County, North Carolina." This small database contained 18 pages from the 1832 family bible of Eliza Frink. These pages contained the pedigree charts and family name lists for 8 generations of the Frink family! She had never heard of Eliza Frink, but she immediately recognized some of the names on those pages from the Frink Family Bible. This was a gold mine of family history research for her.
The next example of an amazing success on WorldVitalRecords.com happened just this week. We had a prospective business partner from Seattle that came to Provo to visit with us. She was not that familiar with our site or with genealogy database sites in general. I explained what we did and how our business model worked. I wanted to give her an example of some of the databases that we had on our site. I asked her where her family was from. I navigated to the state of Washington to see all of the data that we had for Washington state. I scrolled down through the roughly 50 databases that we have that pertain to Washington state. About halfway down the list, she saw the Deer Park Tribune and the Deer Park Union newspapers. These are part of the SmallTownPapers® collection that we have on WorldVitalRecords.com.
She exclaimed, "that is where I am from." She then began to browse through the newspaper and found where both her husband and herself were listed as being on the honor roll in their high school. Both of us were amazed by her quick find. We printed off the newspaper pages so that she could take them back to Seattle to show to her husband. She quickly gained an understanding of the power of the ever-growing database collection on WorldVitalRecords.com.
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