At the risk of remaining off topic, here's how I have chosen to deal with my ancestry.com subscription so as not to stay mad all the time. My library has ancestry.com (and much more), but their hours are not very convenient for me. So I do subscribe to ancestry. However, I view it as a database of images, and most of the time try to pretend that the indexes don't exist. Going to the ancestry.com images is usually *much* faster than going to the end of a reel of microfilm. The indexes are useful sometimes, but they are full of omissions and serious errors. So I do a lot of index lookups at the library (which doesn't take too long), and then come home and lookup the images on ancestry.com. I *really* wish ancestry.com (or somebody) would place the 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930 Soundex online. It wouldn't cost very much as compared to having human beings do all that indexing. And I have found a lot of people in the Soundex that I can't find in the ancestry.com indexes. But I just use the Soundex at the library. Jerry Bryan _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 limited-time offer: Join now and get 3 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup&xAPID=42&PS=47575&PI=7324&DI=7474&SU= http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getmsg&HL=1216hotmailtaglines_newmsn8ishere_3mf

Unfortunately only 13 southern states have the 1930 Soundex. The best results will be obtained when extant efforts to transcribe all censuses and other database get the support that they need. Earnie Breeding ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Bryan" <c24m48@hotmail.com> To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 10:00 AM Subject: [FO] ancestry.com At the risk of remaining off topic, here's how I have chosen to deal with my ancestry.com subscription so as not to stay mad all the time. My library has ancestry.com (and much more), but their hours are not very convenient for me. So I do subscribe to ancestry. However, I view it as a database of images, and most of the time try to pretend that the indexes don't exist. Going to the ancestry.com images is usually *much* faster than going to the end of a reel of microfilm. The indexes are useful sometimes, but they are full of omissions and serious errors. So I do a lot of index lookups at the library (which doesn't take too long), and then come home and lookup the images on ancestry.com. I *really* wish ancestry.com (or somebody) would place the 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930 Soundex online. It wouldn't cost very much as compared to having human beings do all that indexing. And I have found a lot of people in the Soundex that I can't find in the ancestry.com indexes. But I just use the Soundex at the library. Jerry Bryan _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 limited-time offer: Join now and get 3 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup&xAPID=42&PS=47575&PI=7324&DI=7474&SU= http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getmsg&HL=1216hotmailtaglines_newmsn8ishe re_3mf ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== The Genealogical Companion http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2399/tgc.htm Browsable Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/family-origins-users/