Holly: In my opinion, comparing ancestry to scotlandspeople is like comparing apples and oranges. Ancestry has poor coverage of Scotland at best. I live here in the US and can tell you that I found more information on SP and the good people on the lists at rootsweb than anything on ancestry. I think SP has more relevant information when it comes to my Scottish ancestors than Ancestry has with my American or Canadian ancestors. Most of what I have found from SP is freely available on the IGI (but a few of them were missed <g>). I prefer to search from the comfort of my home and that is worth the price that I pay to scotlandspeople (although I do not think it is that unreasonable). Not only that, I am impatient and do not want to wait for films to come in to my local FHS <g>. It is great to find people on a census, but that does not tell me who their parents were if they are listed as heads of family on the census. It does not tell me witness / informant information on the christenings, marriages or deaths. Personally, that is what I am looking for. But in all fairness, you may have had a better experience with ancestry than I. Sherry Canton, MI ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mert & Holly Kilpatrick" <kilpatrk@epix.net> To: <MORAY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 6:37 AM Subject: RE: [MORAY] ScotlandsPeople >I guess it is better than nothing, but to me it is incredibly expensive, >and > there are only 3 (I think) census years on it. When I compare it to > ancestry.com, it retards research so much in comparison. I can sit and > page > through 150 pages of the entire Brooklyn, New York 1850 census in one > evening on ancestry.com -- that's the original images I'm talking about. > I > can review the whole neighborhood. Then I can jump to any of the other > years, or nearby areas, or quickly peruse the whole state for a certain > name, and quickly look at the originals for those records. All this for > $100 a year. I can spend hours reading the census every night if I want > to. > And I do spend a lot of time on it, it probably comes out to pennies per > image. And there are some Canadian and UK censuses on it also. The > contrast with Scotland's People is huge. > > I hope someday ancestry.com will get the Scottish censuses, or is it an > issue that the government will not release them to private companies? And > many people are doing a wonderful job getting some of them up for free, if > they still need help when I retire I would like to help with that. > > Holly > East Bangor, PA > > , >> >> I am an avid user of scotlandspeople and it has been a very good >> experience. >> I find that most everything is available freely on the IGI (but they did >> miss a few!) I do not have much time as I have a day job and find >> scotlandspeople more convenient. I will say, living in the USA, I have >> had >> a very good experience with it. >> > > > ==== MORAY Mailing List ==== > Don't forget that if you delete a message, you can always visit the > archives of this list http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/MORAY/. The > archives are also worth looking at, whether you be a new or established > lister. > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx > >