Hi, Sue. I rely heavily on ancestry for both my personal and professional research. I don't pay much attention to the trees posted there by other users (because I can't depend on the information being accurate/documented), but I do use the source materials (censuses, historical newspapers, WWI draft cards, etc., etc.) all day long every working day of my life. I also subscribe to genealogy.com, and it is useless by comparison. As far as I'm concerned, ancestry is worth every penny. Having said that, it's also true that ancestry.com is currently overhauling their organization of data and I am NOT pleased with the changes in their search template. I hope that the change is temporary. I don't post any family tree information at ancestry.com. I maintain all of my own and my clients' records in Family Tree Maker databases on my own computer. I don't want to proliferate any of my unproven guesses. Occasionally I'll privatize one of my own files, generate a descendant report, and post the information at one of the message boards. Sue O'Donnell <[email protected]> wrote: Hello SF list, I'm thinking of subscribing to ancestry.com. I assume that others on this list are subscribed to it as well. Does anyone have any thoughts and interactions with ancestry.com to share ? Someone called me the other day from ancestry.com and I think they had already looked at my file(s) I have stored on their site given what the person said to me. I have also noted that there are a lot of mistakes on the census records they have transcribed which makes them rather useless unless you actually pull the full record up and read the whole thing. Being a large portion of my tree is guess work, I don't care to make it public, that is for certain. How safe is my information? I'd appreciate any feedback before I make a commitments. I've heard in the past that getting rid of them one you have decided you've had enough of their service can be difficult (?). Is this still the case? Many thanks in advance, Sue _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Spaces is here! It’s easy to create your own personal Web site. http://spaces.live.com/signup.aspx ************************** Visit SFGenealogy.com! http://www.sfgenealogy.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ========================== Mary Thiele Fobian Genealogical & Historical Research Pacific Grove, California

I agree with Ancestry's changes in the search template......not very good at all! Aside from that I love the site! Donna Fremont, CA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Thiele Fobian" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 9:40 PM Subject: [CASANFRA] ancestry.com feedback Hi, Sue. I rely heavily on ancestry for both my personal and professional research. I don't pay much attention to the trees posted there by other users (because I can't depend on the information being accurate/documented), but I do use the source materials (censuses, historical newspapers, WWI draft cards, etc., etc.) all day long every working day of my life. I also subscribe to genealogy.com, and it is useless by comparison. As far as I'm concerned, ancestry is worth every penny. Having said that, it's also true that ancestry.com is currently overhauling their organization of data and I am NOT pleased with the changes in their search template. I hope that the change is temporary. I don't post any family tree information at ancestry.com. I maintain all of my own and my clients' records in Family Tree Maker databases on my own computer. I don't want to proliferate any of my unproven guesses. Occasionally I'll privatize one of my own files, generate a descendant report, and post the information at one of the message boards. Sue O'Donnell <[email protected]> wrote: Hello SF list, I'm thinking of subscribing to ancestry.com. I assume that others on this list are subscribed to it as well. Does anyone have any thoughts and interactions with ancestry.com to share ? Someone called me the other day from ancestry.com and I think they had already looked at my file(s) I have stored on their site given what the person said to me. I have also noted that there are a lot of mistakes on the census records they have transcribed which makes them rather useless unless you actually pull the full record up and read the whole thing. Being a large portion of my tree is guess work, I don't care to make it public, that is for certain. How safe is my information? I'd appreciate any feedback before I make a commitments. I've heard in the past that getting rid of them one you have decided you've had enough of their service can be difficult (?). Is this still the case? Many thanks in advance, Sue _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Spaces is here! It's easy to create your own personal Web site. http://spaces.live.com/signup.aspx ************************** Visit SFGenealogy.com! http://www.sfgenealogy.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ========================== Mary Thiele Fobian Genealogical & Historical Research Pacific Grove, California ************************** Visit SFGenealogy.com! http://www.sfgenealogy.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message