Larry, I have to agree with the ancestry.com supporters. I've been a member for over a year and have been very delighted with the site. I am also a member of FTM, but find that I frequent ancestry 90% more than FTM as I've found so much more information (resource wise). Obviously you don't want to depend on someone elses research, but you can view Gedcom's for free with ancestry. There is a wealth of resources there also. Not to mention that they are attempting to upload census images of all census' 1790-1920 (only the 1790 and part of the 1920 is up thus far). To me it's worth the extra cost to have access to any census! My pet peeve about FTM is that their CD's are costly and they do not freely share information that other people have researched. I'm not willing to put all the work into my research so that another company can profit from it. As I said, I'm a member of both but if your going for one, I would recommend ancestry. Vickie Johnson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Copley" <moses@stlnet.com> To: <INOWEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 6:51 AM Subject: [INOWEN] Fee Sites : Hi All : I'm considering joining one of the fee sites. Can anyone give me the : relative merits of Ancestry.com versus FamilyTreeMaker.com? : Thanks. : Larry Copley : moses@stlnet.com : : : : ==== INOWEN Mailing List ==== : Contact the listowner at : debbiej@iquest.net : :