iuki@hotmail.com wrote: > > I recently signed up with ancestry.com for a 3-month subscription > following a 14-day free trial. Although I hesitated signing up with > ancestry.com, I found that every "free" genealogy research website > always directed me to an ancestry.com website. Therefore, one has no > choice but to subscribe to ancestry.com if you wish to do any > genealogy research. > > iuki Until we find out what the LDS is brewing, I have to admit that Ancestry is so far the best (imo) way to quickly research & build a decent tree with the least amount of pain. It may not be the end-all, and they're having some programming growing pains but once you get the hang of the site it can be pretty quick to add people, families, and citations. Just stay away from the trees as a resource! They are usually poorly documented and many are outdated. Stick with the historical databases and newspaper listings, etc. A quick tip (they may fix this soon)- If you add a person to your online tree directly from a census, go back to the census page and attach it to him/her again to get the residence event. For some reason it only adds the person & birth on the first pass. I've only just picked up Family Tree Maker 2008, but that might be the best way to go with an Ancestry subscription. When you build a tree in it you can do all of the online searching & adding of people/events/citations automatically from the PC, and it will also download the census & other image files to your PC as well. I hate to get sucked in by "the man", but so far they have a good game.