Hi Christene, Would you recommend a complete subscription (everything they have) or would it be better to select only the areas of ones own family history interest. Cheers, Laraine -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christene Sent: Saturday, 20 June 2009 9:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [HV] ancestry.com I have been a member of the ancestry au site for quite a while plenty of benefits...I have yet to find a downfall I have found family on the members trees and I use the uk welsh and scot census ,au electoral rolls etc,,,never a problem Christene

I have the Australian and UK subscription only and that has been good so far. The dollar exchange rate was very good when I joined 18 months ago - the last subscription rate was not so good :-) I have found that using Ancestry has helped a lot with things like directories and electoral rolls. The detail I got from them really helped to give "flesh" to my records. But as far as UK BDM records, you can get them for free using Free BMD (just google that to find the link). The same group has started transcribing parish records but it's in its infancy so far. I have some people in my tree that may have gone to Canada or the US before coming to Australia. When I get ready to follow that up I may take out just a 1 month world wide Ancestry subscription or make a view visits to a library that has it for free. You may find that that's enough for you. I have heard that it's a bit difficult to un-subscribe. The other thing you might like to do is to join Genes Reunited. It's only about $20 a year and it's more focussed on the UK, Australia and New Zealand than Ancestry is. Ancestry is more oriented towards US records. Genes Runited is useful for making contact with others in your tree. You can pay extra to have access to databases - things like BDMs etc. I haven't used them and I read an email where someone said that they are not as good as Ancestry's - their opinion only. Cheers Robyn On 23/06/2009, K & L Goodworth <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Christene, > > Would you recommend a complete subscription (everything they have) or would > it be better to select only the areas of ones own family history interest. > > Cheers, > Laraine > >

Dear Laraine, David and Sandra have been members for a couple of years. Give David a call. He is very happy with what he has. Regards.Bill > > Would you recommend a complete subscription (everything they have) or > would > it be better to select only the areas of ones own family history interest.