It took me a long time to subscribe to ancestry.com but finally I succumbed and find it invaluable - but hope I can get all I need in one year. One thing I cannot get with the subscription I have is access to historical newspapers and some of my ancestral info is there. There is the offer to upgrade listing various options in the blurb - the one month would be satisfactory - it's listed but unclickable! Add another 100 dollars for the upgrade for a year. Foul! Heritage has access to some books which is helpful and sometimes your library offers it free to you. (I am not in the US however), Familysearch is a good place to start but caution is needed. Since often it is individual input there are gross errors and I have found them for my ancestors. These are not remedial by deletion but by adding another - nice to confuse people. One good factor with ancestry is that with a full subscription one can correct errors or add on their trees (right - be sure you know what you are talking about)! If any of you is doing east Sussex (mainly east) , England research, try <www.thesussexweald.org>. It is fantastic and free! Gloria

I subscribe to the historical newspapers, and they have proved very useful. I have found information about family members that I would not have learned any other way. I have found obituaries that have information I did not have. The real drawback is in the set of newspapers they have on file. They may not cover an area that you want to research. The subscription is a bit expensive, but it's my hobby. I spend a lot less on genealogy than on other hobbies. -----Original Message----- From: Gloria Bauer Ishida [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 8:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MAWORCES] Re: the best .... It took me a long time to subscribe to ancestry.com but finally I succumbed and find it invaluable - but hope I can get all I need in one year. One thing I cannot get with the subscription I have is access to historical newspapers and some of my ancestral info is there. There is the offer to upgrade listing various options in the blurb - the one month would be satisfactory - it's listed but unclickable! Add another 100 dollars for the upgrade for a year. Foul! Heritage has access to some books which is helpful and sometimes your library offers it free to you. (I am not in the US however), Familysearch is a good place to start but caution is needed. Since often it is individual input there are gross errors and I have found them for my ancestors. These are not remedial by deletion but by adding another - nice to confuse people. One good factor with ancestry is that with a full subscription one can correct errors or add on their trees (right - be sure you know what you are talking about)! If any of you is doing east Sussex (mainly east) , England research, try <www.thesussexweald.org>. It is fantastic and free! Gloria ==== MAWORCES Mailing List ==== Worcester GenWeb has many Resources Check it out!! http://www.rootsweb.com/~maworces