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To make it even easier for patrons to find professional help, links to these directory pages would be created from other existing wiki pages. So a page like "Ohio Vital Records" would contain a link to "Professional Genealogists Serving Ohio." The link's wording might be something like "For a list of professional genealogists who can procure vital records, see 'Professional Genealogists Serving Ohio.'" | To make it even easier for patrons to find professional help, links to these directory pages would be created from other existing wiki pages. So a page like "Ohio Vital Records" would contain a link to "Professional Genealogists Serving Ohio." The link's wording might be something like "For a list of professional genealogists who can procure vital records, see 'Professional Genealogists Serving Ohio.'" | ||
== | == Isn't this awfully commercial for a wiki? == | ||
Some folks worry about linking wiki pages to professional genealogists. But the wiki already has thousands of links to commercial offerings -- most of them digitized records available for a fee. Professional genealogists provide the same kinds of information these fee-based digital record sites do -- they just do it in a more customized way. If genealogy were the food industry, the big companies that offer digital records might be likened to a McDonald's or a Stauffer's, whereas the professional researcher might be a mom-and-pop restaurant. If the wiki's Ohio Vital Records page can link to a Website of a company offering digitized records for a fee, why should it not also link to Websites of professionals offering to find similar records for a fee? | Some folks worry about linking wiki pages to professional genealogists. But the wiki already has thousands of links to commercial offerings -- most of them digitized records available for a fee. Professional genealogists provide the same kinds of information these fee-based digital record sites do -- they just do it in a more customized way. If genealogy were the food industry, the big companies that offer digital records might be likened to a McDonald's or a Stauffer's, whereas the professional researcher might be a mom-and-pop restaurant. If the wiki's Ohio Vital Records page can link to a Website of a company offering digitized records for a fee, why should it not also link to Websites of professionals offering to find similar records for a fee? | ||
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