Saturday, January 19, 2008

Happy Birthday To You!


Happy Birthday To You, Happy Birthday To You, Happy Birthday Dear Footnote, Happy Birthday To You !

In this wondrous era of instant digital media, you have reached your majority. You are ONE YEAR OLD! Fantastic!

For what it is worth, after having spent many an hour hunched over with my head in the metal shroud of a Readex metal microfilm box, yours is a MUCH better approach, in my opinion.

Twenty years ago we could have never dreamed that what you are doing so rapidly would ever be done at any time. It was just unthinkable! You now have 25 Million original documents on-line, viewable, zoomable, downloadable, incredible!

Your new Search Engine, coupled with the brilliant viewer are just a wonder to behold. We can do so much more with these digitized images than we could ever do with the grainy, scratched, out of focus 8 1/2 X 11 inch photocopies that were made from microfilm, that it is just astounding!

To our readers of the Upstate New York Genealogy Blog, we recommend this company to the highest degree. Your subscriptions on Footnote do help to support this website, and not only will Footnote thank you for your business, you will have our heartfelt thanks also. Take a three day FREE test drive and see for yourself. When you do subscribe from this website it will not cost you a penny more, so thanks again.

Ps: Footnote, we LOVE your Small Town Newspapers Series!

Pps: Tell us what you think. Tell us about your good fortune on Footnote. What are your thoughts? Leave a comment by just clicking the comment tab below.



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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Mr. Hillenbrand.
You have convinced me that it is worthwhile to subscribe to footnote.com.

I did, and in just a few minutes I located an original Revolutionary War Pension document that had my ancestor's own signature on it!

How exciting! I am actually finding so much new information that it makes my head spin.

Thank you so much!