Sue, Here's my 2 cents about Ancestry: I live about 35 miles from Salt Lake City and the Family History Library. (SF Bay Area native and resident for 60 yrs) I thought there was no reason for me to sign up for Ancestry since I could go to the Library any day! Wrong. It's so much easier to do the census work at home. I don't use much of their other offerings as I can never find what I'm looking for. The census sheets on my computer are much easier and clearer than looking at the LDS films that you used to have to look up in an index book, then get the film, load it, find the city/township you are looking for. I do know that the Fam Hist Lib has Ancestry on all their computers in the Library and it is free to search for anyone wanting to use it. They did call me when my renewal was up last month and I signed up again, just for the use of the census. There was no pressure and I could have declined their offer. I've been at genealogy for 30 years, so I've done most my work, but I love finding way-out cousins and of course genealogy is never ending! Go for it. Helen O'Connor, Park City, UT Sue O'Donnell 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 >