I just uploaded my information (GEDCOM) to Ancestry family trees last week and I like it very much. You're able to compare your data with other people's trees, find new leads to investigate, connect with others that are researching the same families, etc. Seeing people's sources is a great help too and the photos of people, tombstones, etc. are wonderful. So are the "tips" Ancestry provides. Everyone should take a look at this section of Ancestry.
You can make your info public or private and delete the whole thing at any time if you're not happy with it.
Pam
--- On Mon, 5/17/10, Clay Gullatt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Clay Gullatt <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Ancestry Family Trees
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Date: Monday, May 17, 2010, 10:03 PM
Apparently few are using the new family trees at ancestry.com. Unlike the old family trees, one world trees and gedcoms the new family trees at ancestry have a place for source citations, media, photos, stories and so on. You can click on a person and see at a glance if the person's records has been sourced and see the source.
I never had a tree at ancestry before because there was so much wrong info on those there, now I do and I am slowly building it with the addition of as many sources and other data as I can. I may not be able to go back to the middle ages as some claim but at least what I do have will be mostly sourced. We all should be so lucky as to trace our ancestors back to when they arrived in this country and those of us in the South are doubly lucky if we can after all the destruction of records during the Civil War.
Clay Gullatt
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