ancestry.com is advertised on nearly every page I see when searching for records. I decided to do a search on their site and it came up with literally hundreds of answers. ancestry.com has a fee, the one I would "want" is that $120+ subscription. Questions 1. Do you subscribe to ancestry.com and does it really have things that cannot be found online? I do not want to spend that much money only to find the information the same quality or worse quality than I've already found on my own. I wish they would allow a "sample" of a search so I would get an idea of what I would be buying from them So, anyone already subscribed to ancestry.com and are happy or very happy? ancestry.com claims to have marriage records for dates that I would have to go to the court house in person to get. If this is true then It might even be worth it. I'm just very worried that I might be wasting my money. Please give some guidance if you can. Thanks,

The library where I work recently ponied up for an institutional subscription to Ancestry Plus for our patrons. Since I get to lead a little tutorial in which I present it to staff & patrons, I did a little counting. Ancestry presently offers around 2600 databases, counting each census year, each city directory, each scanned-in/OCr'ed book as a separate database. By comparison, the library where I work already owns over 5,000 published genealogies and over 30,000 local history titles. And I haven't even counted our census holdings & indices yet. So, IMHO, if you have a real library or FHC nearby, you're better off. On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, dnc in tennessee wrote: > ancestry.com is advertised on nearly every page I see when > searching for records. I decided to do a search on their > site and it came up with literally hundreds of answers. > > ancestry.com has a fee, the one I would "want" is that $120+ > subscription. > > Questions > > 1. Do you subscribe to ancestry.com and does it really have > things that cannot be found online? > > > I do not want to spend that much money only to find the > information the same quality or worse quality than I've > already found on my own. > > I wish they would allow a "sample" of a search so I would > get an idea of what I would be buying from them > > So, anyone already subscribed to ancestry.com and are happy > or very happy? > > ancestry.com claims to have marriage records for dates that > I would have to go to the court house in person to get. > If this is true then It might even be worth it. > > I'm just very worried that I might be wasting my money. > > Please give some guidance if you can. > > Thanks, > > > -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=- Webmaster: Cynthia Van Ness, MLS -- roots@bfn.org Roots: The Buffalo NY Genealogy Forum -- http://www.bfn.org/~roots With obits, vital records, city directories & hundreds of local links