I totally agree with what Jim Brown has said about Ancestry, I know I would not be anywhere close to where I am in my research nor would I be able to help others if I didn't have it. Eileen Gillette --- On Fri, 12/18/09, JIM JR BROWN <jimbrown848@bellsouth.net> wrote: From: JIM JR BROWN <jimbrown848@bellsouth.net> Subject: [BROWN] bolgs regarding Ancestry.com To: brown@rootsweb.com Date: Friday, December 18, 2009, 9:25 AM Hi All, I have been into geneaology since 1999, and at that time subscribed to Ancestry.  I have been a member since that time and have found it very beneficial.  I allow my data to be uploaded and utilized by anyone wishing to do so.  The greatest majority of my data is verified thanks to the newer versions of Ancestry 2009 and 10.  I would not be without the program personally.  Seems like many of you are complaining for no good or rational reason.  If you wish to do all the traveling from one courthouse to the other, that is your priviledge and more power to you.  Basically, if you don't like Ancestry.com, don't subscribe.  No one is forcing you to do so!  But quit crying like babies that they charge for membership.  They spend alot of money obtaining your online data, sending people to the State capitals and to Washington, DC to all the archives.  Do you have that kind of time? May God Bless you and yours! Jim ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BROWN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Have used it for years. I would not be where I am today without it either. An example flew to Toronto to visit my brother spent the day at the archives with him and hardly got a thing. Upgraded to a newer version of FTM put in the same data could not believe what my FTM found in Ancestry for me. So many documents that lead to other ancestors. It is well worth the yearly fee and I have just received the FTM 2010 which is great. Very cost effective. My only brick wall is my gggrandfather John Ebenezer Brown born Nov 1822 also in census showing as John C. Brown and John E Brown. The first name is the real one as I found the decendant with his John's family bible and I took pictures of the pages. It dates back to 1855 and then I made my own bible from the pages. My ggrandfather said he was from Dublin Ireland and have found no proof of that but census says NY and sometimes Vermont. I had my brother do the Brown DNA when it first came out. No matches yet ....still waiting. Carol Brown Parker