I've tried to put together a family tree, but the software made it so exasperating it wasn't fun. Everyone could have only one first name and the middle name didn't show up, and it was really difficult to keep track of multiple marriages.
Willow: You know what they say. The bigger they are... Anya: The faster they stomp you into nothin'.
'The Killer In Me'
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Zenkitty - Sep 28, 2013 8:41:40 am PDT #7035 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Hil R. - Sep 28, 2013 8:43:44 am PDT #7036 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I've tried to put together a family tree, but the software made it so exasperating it wasn't fun. Everyone could have only one first name and the middle name didn't show up, and it was really difficult to keep track of multiple marriages.
What software were you using? Family Tree Maker is pretty good.
Zenkitty - Sep 28, 2013 8:45:01 am PDT #7037 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I can't remember, Hil.
Pix - Sep 28, 2013 8:47:21 am PDT #7038 of 30000
The status is NOT quo.
How good is ancestry.com? I have a ton of info about both sides of my family and have always wanted to dig deeper. Is it worth the money?
Trudy Booth - Sep 28, 2013 8:48:10 am PDT #7039 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I like slap disease better than fifth disease... fifth disease always seemed like such a dis.
We can't even bother to name you...
It's like my aunt, who was the eighth child, having no baby pictures. (Once she needed one for school and had to take one of her sister). Well, no individual baby pictures. I think they found one later though.
Connie Neil - Sep 28, 2013 8:49:25 am PDT #7040 of 30000
brillig
Having traced my ancestors back to the Plymouth colony,
Which ones do you have? I have Endicotts and Lippincotts and Gaskill/Gaskoynes and Southards. No, the Southards are in New York, I think. I've got a lot of colonists.
Hil R. - Sep 28, 2013 8:51:29 am PDT #7041 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
How good is ancestry.com? I have a ton of info about both sides of my family and have always wanted to dig deeper. Is it worth the money?
In my opinion, yes. They've got a ton of records digitized, the search engine is pretty good, and if you want to, you can find other people who are researching the same ancestors you are.
shrift - Sep 28, 2013 9:06:10 am PDT #7042 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I picked up my CSA today, and since I'm going to Maui tomorrow morning, I'm now roasting and freezing all of the things that can be roasted and frozen.
Ginger - Sep 28, 2013 9:32:23 am PDT #7043 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I'm reading a book that includes a lot about mass extinctions and plagues, and the author uses "decimate" over and over to mean "almost everything died." It makes me twitch.
Sue - Sep 28, 2013 9:42:20 am PDT #7044 of 30000
hip deep in pie
In my opinion, yes. They've got a ton of records digitized, the search engine is pretty good, and if you want to, you can find other people who are researching the same ancestors you are.
I will give the caveat that many of the public records they have digitized are available elsewhere and often for free. (For example, they have all the birth, marriages and death records from Archives I used to be part of and they're free on the NS Archives website, but behind a paywall at Ancestry.) The great advantage of Ancestry is that the records of many institutions are searchable in one place.