Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com | |
URL | MyFamily.com, MyCanvas.com, Genealogy.com, Mundia.com |
Status | Online! |
Archiving status | In progress... |
Archiving type | Unknown |
Project source | ancestry-grab |
Project tracker | ancestry |
IRC channel | #ancienthistory (on hackint) |
Ancesty.com is shutting down its four genealogy-themed websites.
Shutdown
ancestryinsider.org, Thursday, June 5, 2014:
"Ancestry.com announced this morning at 10:00 MT that it is retiring several of its websites. The websites are
- MyFamily.com
- MyCanvas.com
- Genealogy.com
- Mundia.com
Ancestry.com is trying to soften the blow of these shutdowns. Users will be told the retirement timeline and how to export their data."
Read more at http://www.ancestryinsider.org/2014/06/ancestrycom-announces-retirement-of.html
Note: we are saving four websites (and their many sub-domains) that are *owned* by Ancestry.com and which are being sunsetted. Ancestry.com itself doesn't look like it's going anywhere right now.
How can I help?
Running a Warrior
You can start up a Warrior and there select Ancestry. (If you don't really care what you are archiving, select ArchiveTeam's Choice instead, as at some points ArchiveTeam may priorize another project.)
Runnings the script manually
If you use Linux and you're a bit familiar with it, you can try running the scripts directly. To do so, do the following:
- install
git
andpython-pip
(and their dependencies) - open a terminal and issue the following commands:
sudo pip install seesaw git clone https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/ancestry-grab cd ancestry-grab ./get-wget-lua.sh run-pipeline pipeline.py --concurrent 2 YOURNICKHERE
where you don't forget to replace "YOURNICKHERE" with your nickname to be shown on the leaderboard.
All commands should finish successfully, otherwise you can't run the scripts. If something doesn't work, you can run the Warrior instead, or ask us on IRC (see below).
The number after --concurrent
determines how many threads run at the same time. You can increase this number if your resources (RAM, CPU, bandwidth) are sufficient. However, if you see limiting messages, there is no need to increase the concurrency.
If you want to stop the script, please do it softly if possible. To do this, create an empty file named STOP in the folder of the script (ancestry-grab
). That way you won't interrupt an active download/upload process.
Joining us on IRC
Either you run the Warrior or the script, you should join our IRC channel #ancienthistory to catch the latest news about the project and its progress, and there you can also put questions if something doesn't work. You can use the web interface at http://chat.efnet.org:9090, or if you use a standalone IRC client, connect to irc://irc.efnet.org/ancienthistory.
External links
http://www.ancestryinsider.org/2014/06/ancestrycom-announces-retirement-of.html