I have had the trial version on ancestry several times, so I have exhausted the census records there. They are very, very good, no doubt. It's great to be at home and do that kind of research, for free or for $30 a month. Now, I am thinking on foreign records, which means German on my mother's side. However, based on Marie's recent comments, I am now thinking on not using ancestry. Paul On 30 MFómh 2006, at 3:07 pm, Rujan2000@aol.com wrote: > I have been on Ancestry for many years. My search of passengers > hasn't been > productive on line, so cannot recommend it for that. But for Census > it's > tops. You can search by birth year, by name, by county, by state (if > you're > game to try) and also different spellings of either surname or given > name, or > country of origin. For any of you considering subscribing....divide > the fee > by 12 and you'll see just how much it's costing by comparison to > traveling to > libraries, copying charges and the parking fees. I am home and can > work on > genealogy any time of the day. Check the Ancestry web site to see > what is > offered. The Census searching has improved 100% since I first > subscribed. > Ruth > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > message >

Paul, You did not say where in Germany for your Mother's family. A very good place on the internet would be rootsweb message board for Saxony. Get yourself a good German dictionary learn the basic words for birth, marriage and death for your films at LDS you will need some basic's for the films. Remember not all villages are available on film and many records were destroyed during WWII. Also if your not familiar with www.familysearch.com for searching rudimentery names there is also a option for their library on the top of the page....and good hunting. Marie ----- Original Message ----- From: "eile" <eile@comcast.net> To: <germany-passenger-lists@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 3:23 PM Subject: Re: [G-P-L] ancestry I have had the trial version on ancestry several times, so I have exhausted the census records there. They are very, very good, no doubt. It's great to be at home and do that kind of research, for free or for $30 a month. Now, I am thinking on foreign records, which means German on my mother's side. However, based on Marie's recent comments, I am now thinking on not using ancestry. Paul On 30 MFómh 2006, at 3:07 pm, Rujan2000@aol.com wrote: > I have been on Ancestry for many years. My search of passengers > hasn't been > productive on line, so cannot recommend it for that. But for Census > it's > tops. You can search by birth year, by name, by county, by state (if > you're > game to try) and also different spellings of either surname or given > name, or > country of origin. For any of you considering subscribing....divide > the fee > by 12 and you'll see just how much it's costing by comparison to > traveling to > libraries, copying charges and the parking fees. I am home and can > work on > genealogy any time of the day. Check the Ancestry web site to see > what is > offered. The Census searching has improved 100% since I first > subscribed. > Ruth > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message