Dear Listers A timely reminder Ancestry own Rootsweb . Rootsweb supplies an enormous range of tools for genealogists use for FREE . An example is this mailing list and the 30,000 others. Yesterday I posted some info to help in navigating your way around the new family search.org Re posting this The April 2012 issue of the 'Who do you think you are' magazine has all sorts of info including 10 amazing search tips in 50 ways to get more info from new familysearch.org. When all else fails could be worth casting an eye over.Or maybe read the instructions would have been better choice of words ! The copy I have is from my local library........ Perhaps no one bothered to read this ? as no one has commented on it . Why shouldn't there be a charge to use some data bases ? We are very lucky in this country to have excellent free access to a great deal of info .......... Trove being a prime example. The UK newspapers data base isnt free . All State Archives and many FHS have free data/ indexes on line ............. Victorian Government Gazettes is an amazing resource as is the VIC wills on line to 1925 for FREE. NSW State Records have digitised a large range of passenger arrivals ,again for FREE. TAS wills are on line for FREE Ancestry.com.au is also an amazing resource which can be accessed for FREE via many libraries and FHS . However if you wish home access its going to cost. My Ancestry world access sub costs me around A$1 a day . A greedy site ? no way. I have spent hours in the past down at the NSW State Library ( a 4 hour return train trip from home) trolling thru various electoral rolls on fiche looking for that elusive family . Now I can just type in a name /State and find who ever in an instant . Many years ago I use to drive to the LDS at Charlestown (Newcastle) most Tuesday mornings to look up some un index UK census film I had ordered . There were only 2 film readers and you had about 15 minutes to look before you got turfed off . When they got their first computer only a LDS library person could use it and you sat along side. Ages ago when the SAG first bought the then called St Catherine's BDM indexes again only library assistants were allowed to touch the fiche . You had to call out the name and approx time and it was utter mayhem . Ancestry UK. USA & Canada has some amazing data too and I get access to the lot for around $1 a day Bye MargM Sydney List Admin

Hear, hear, Marg. Linda in the UK > > A timely reminder Ancestry own Rootsweb . Rootsweb supplies an > enormous range of tools for genealogists use for FREE . An > example is this mailing list and the 30,000 others. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Please remember to snip most of the earlier message before you post any > reply...... Thank you! > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-NSW-SYDNEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message