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.
Buffy: How was school today? Dawn: The usual. A big square building filled with boredom and despair.
Buffy: Just how I remember it.
'The Killer In Me'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Sep 28, 2013 8:49:25 am PDT #7040 of 30000
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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.
Amy - Sep 28, 2013 9:59:49 am PDT #7048 of 30000
Because books.
The story is that we're related to Daniel Boone, and I think whoever did the history might have had it done professionally. It's just not as interesting to me as my mom's side of the family, because to do the research and find out I already knew who I was related to would be a bummer, I think.
Beverly - Sep 28, 2013 10:10:51 am PDT #7049 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Huh. DNA might be a way to go. It's impersonal enough I wouldn't have to worry about living birth family, right? I'm a little curious about my lineage, as long as I don't have to (shudder) interact.