The latest post from The Ancestry Insider follows up on the rumour that Mocavo would be making changes to their method of providing genealogy information.
“Good news for Mocavo users and—basically—all genealogists. After my story “Mocavo’s Free Forever Promise No Longer” Findmypast content marketing manager, Jim Shaughnessy, reached out with this comment:
‘All the Mocavo content either is or will shortly be published for free on Findmypast in line with our promise to Mocavo customers. All that is required to access the content will be for users to register and create a free account (just the same as was done for Mocavo)..’
Jim has since informed me:
‘I can now confirm that all US Census years are now free on Findmypast as per our Mocavo promise.’
I verified access to a couple of the census years. I logged in with the free account I created last time. I think it is entirely appropriate for them to require registration. We should expect to put some skin in the game. I didn’t have to provide a credit card number and there is no automatic conversion to a paid subscription. I was able to view complete index entries and images with no hassles. I wasn’t plagued by nag-ware. Findmypast has done a completely classy implementation.
Thank you Jim, and thank you Findmypast for this generous gift to the genealogical community. Hat’s off to you.”
Please click here for further information on the merging of Mocavo into FindMyPast.