Good afternoon all, One thing to be cognizant of with this site is that it returns 'generic' surnames in the 'Living People' category, rather than the specific one you wanted to search on. For instance, my project is MURDUCK, and I entered that spelling into the surname search box. The database returned 333 instances of names flagged as MURDUCK, in the 'Living People' category, but closer inspection shows that they were, for the most part, MURDOCK. It would take hours of work just to review each 'hit', discard the MURDOCK examples, and keep the very few MURDUCK examples. I see no way to qualify the surname search to 'exact' spellings, unless I'm missing something. At least most of the 'Census', 'Birth', 'Death', and other categories returned true instances of MURDUCK records. Bruce Murduck Sydenham, Ontario, Canada > Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 09:08:11 -0700 > From: Jim Culbert <jhculbert@gmail.com> > To: goons@rootsweb.com > Subject: [G] Family Tree Now > Message-ID: > <CAFF4BZOmLJUNpxrjPGPPm4VpdwK140Y3p85xUEdvoXYO12joBA@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > For those seeking family connections for people in the U.S., a new website > I have recently discovered may be helpful: > > http://www.familytreenow.com/search/genealogy/results > > If you know or suspect a persons place of residence, you can search the > database and information about those people that meet your search criteria > will be returned. What is really interesting is that these data on > individuals also include links to possible relatives and possible > associates, which are in many cases also relatives. > > Where I find this site really useful is in fleshing out information found > in recent obituaries. For a fictitious example, Robert Culbert's 2016 > obituary shows a surviving son, John, with wife Tracy, living in > Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I can enter this information into the website > search fields, and almost always find both John and Tracy in the database. > > This data is compiled from U.S. public record sources, including property, > business, historical, and directories. > > I have checked the accuracy of my own listing. Although it is not 100 > percent correct, it does accurately show my possible relatives and possible > associates as other relatives. The addresses are accurate, but the dates > pertaining to them are not. The phone number history is accurate in all > but one case. > > I hope the foregoing is useful. > > Jim Culbert > > > ------------------------------