To all that replied: Thanks for the feedback. I find that saving the records and viewing them (if you have Windows XP like I do) is very convenient (the magnification aspect, wow!). Right now I'm not much studying San Francisco any longer as my research is about done I think. However, now I'm digging around in the deep south (and I mean deep - Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, Louisiana, etc.) and I have found tons of information that I am sure is mine. I'm sharing it with my foster aunt and she is highly intrigued, believe me (I'm intrigued too, but these aren't really my relations or are they?). Anyway, I'm on the expensive trial (about $350 a year plan) for now but finding very little in the world records. It seems that the other half of me goes back very far (beyond record keeping dates) in the USA and it is pretty interesting I'd say. However, my personal criticisms are that there are a lot of mistakes the transcriptions of these old records from way down south (but not everyone has people named Rutilla and Ceithe, Seethe, etc.) I realize. I'm still bugged by that guy that called me up (he was a native of Berkeley, gee what a coincidence). I think the regular version is enough for me but I really don't want to share it with others (especially info. related to my late mother who was adopted in 1925). Thanks to all for the feedback. It is all positive so that is a real plus. As for AOL, I'll hold my comments on that! Hint: *ack!!!!* Oh, btw, I have some interesting news. It seems that the sealed adoption records that were and still are stored in New Orleans for Louisiana are still very much intact and suffered no damage from Katrina (they went in and got those records ASAP luckily). I'm still hoping to find records from that source. As it now stands, I'm waiting for a call back on that one. :) Regards to all, Sue >From: "Helen O'Connor" <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [CASANFRA] ancestry.com feedback needed please >Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:58:43 -0600 > >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! 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