I agree with Paul. Unless you use Ancestry every day, most of the day, the price is outragious. I had it for a while but it wasn't cost effective. You can't beat going to the actual county, the libraries, archives, court houses etc. (I do realize some people are just not able to do that!) When you are on the scene you get the feel of the place and realize you are walking in the same area where your ancestor lived, worked, married and maybe died. A good library is the next best thing. Almost all the online material (unless actual scans) is very suspect and full of errors: Family search, ancestry, FTM, WFT etc. Great for clues! As Paul said, not acceptable for lineage societies.
J. Watkins
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>From: Paul Drake <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Jan 29, 2008 3:28 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: [VA-ROOTS] FYI; Family search online
>
>
>
> You are surely correct, Kay and George and all others.
>
>Ancestry's prices are no less than obscene. Then too, what you will not be
>told is that Ancestry.com probably has less than 5% of the total records
>available to you for research. If you searched every single record and
>source they peddle on-line, you a) still will not know of the thousands of
>records that they do not have, and b) will find that they will not reveal
>that the greatest part of their information is not acceptable as evidence to
>any organization or responsible genealogist of whom I have knowledge.
>
>Your best sources are Heritage Quest, the Allen County Public Library,
>Library of the City of New York, the NARA, the vast sources of the LDS
>(Mormons), the many sources posted by responsible organizations and
>universities that are free and as reliable as any, and the sources listed
>and the information in the newsletters of the state societies and of the
>small societies that exist where any particular ancestor lived - the "where"
>of that person.
>
>Far too few researchers ever look at PERSI, and I do not understand WHY. It
>is available in myriad libraries and on Heritage Quest also. Try it, all.
>
>
>Paul
>************
>From Kay
>Subject: Re: Family search online
>
>At a genealogy class I'm taking, I brought up the fact that the indexes were
>better than Ancestry too. the teacher who is part of the Family search
>transcribing said that Ancestry had people from India doing theirs. No
>wonder there are so many things they misread.
>
>>I noticed the quality of the census scans is much better than that of
>>ancestry as well. If they were to put a major index of scans on line I
>>would not mind spending my hard earned money to subscrbe. Ancestry has
>>just become too pricy for my budget....
>
>Kay
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