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?
Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.
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Pix - Sep 28, 2013 8:47:21 am PDT #7038 of 30000
The status is NOT quo.
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.
Amy - Sep 28, 2013 9:44:16 am PDT #7045 of 30000
Because books.
Ancestry.com fascinates me, but it seems daunting. And on my dad's side of the family, someone did it all already, too.
Zenkitty - Sep 28, 2013 9:56:32 am PDT #7046 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I paid the money for Ancestry once and it was pretty useful, but I didn't use it enough to be worth the monthly cost. I keep thinking about doing it again though.
Polgara - Sep 28, 2013 9:57:01 am PDT #7047 of 30000
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
And on my dad's side of the family, someone did it all already, too.
Gotta be careful about that. My cousin had already created a lot of family links in our tree, but when I checked one of his connections, the census report showed there was no way she could've been the person related to us, as she was on the wrong side of the country and already married to someone else at the time.