JD <jd4x4@<del.this>verizon.net> wrote: > Imo, if starting "from scratch", or starting anew, FTM 2008 and > Ancestry is a winner if you have a good internet connection and even > if you only use it for six months and then go freebie. > Almost forgot the one major annoyance of Ancestry.com... Their search sometimes needs "consideration", to put it nicely! They have in some ways mucked it up lately, but in some ways improved it. It could certainly be better, but even right "out of the box" it's good but not stellar. On the whole though, it's (the search) great because of the large amount of source databases, but in some cases you'll have to play with spellings and combinations of advanced search fields to get your hits.

JD <jd4x4@ wrote: > Almost forgot the one major annoyance of Ancestry.com... > > Their search sometimes needs "consideration", to put it nicely! They have They ask you for various filtering criteria (dates, places, etc.) and then they ignore it and list everyone with a similar name who is mentioned anywhere in any database they have. When I put 1891 for year of death, and Illinois for place to search, it's pretty stupid to suggest that I look at the 1930 Census for Los Angeles. -- Wes Groleau Promote multi-use trails in northeast Indiana! http://www.NorthwestAllenTrails.org/

JD <jd4x4@<del.this>verizon.net> wrote: >JD <jd4x4@<del.this>verizon.net> wrote: > >> Imo, if starting "from scratch", or starting anew, FTM 2008 and >> Ancestry is a winner if you have a good internet connection and even >> if you only use it for six months and then go freebie. >> > >Almost forgot the one major annoyance of Ancestry.com... > >Their search sometimes needs "consideration", to put it nicely! They have >in some ways mucked it up lately, but in some ways improved it. It could >certainly be better, but even right "out of the box" it's good but not >stellar. > >On the whole though, it's (the search) great because of the large amount of >source databases, but in some cases you'll have to play with spellings and >combinations of advanced search fields to get your hits. Thanks for those posts. I currently have FTM 2006 (Help|About calls it 'version 16) so 2008 would be an upgrade. I did use Ancestry in 2005, and it was OK overall. As mentioned up-thread, have now subscribed to The Genealogist. -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK