Hi Chris, Thanks you so much for the information. I think I'll try it for a year. I do have a lot of California folks to research. Thanks again, Jeanne On Jan 27, 2010, at 6:05 PM, Chris Havnar wrote: > Jeanne, > > I have belonged to GenealogyBank since almost the beginning. > > I am an Asst Genealogist in a family name Genealogical Society, I do monitor > the current posted obits for folks dying with "THE" surname. I do also > monitor legacy.com - GenealogyBank does have a different assortment of > current obits from those posted at legacy, or thru Obituary Daily Times. > > Personally, I have huge family in San Jose. GenealogyBank has the paper for > the early part of last century. I have read much of the pre-scandal from my > great-grandfather, and was able to share with the rest of the family the > ramp-up to the divorce. > > I find the service good enough that I have renewed at least once, if not > twice. > > But, you can plug in your names of interest, see how many hits you get and > based on that see if it seems worth while to you. > > Hope this helps all the folks assessing if this service seems to be useful > to them or not... > > > -----Original Message----- > From: norcal-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:norcal-bounces@rootsweb.com] On > Behalf Of Jeanne Moody > Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 8:30 AM > To: norcal@rootsweb.com > Subject: [NORCAL] Genealogy Bank > > Does anyone use Genealogy Bank? Can you tell me the good and the bad (if > any)? > > THanks, > Jeanne > > > > > > ----------------------------------------- > NORCAL ARCHIVES: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ > Enter NORCAL. Browse by month. > Or click the "Search all archives" link to search by keyword. > ----------------------------------------- > To post a message to the NORCAL mailing list, send an email to NORCAL@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORCAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message