To all who are reading the ongoing blurb about genealogy services: I need to put in my 2cents worth. I have been involved with ancestry.com since it's inception. NO, I do not work for them! I have watched them grow to be what they are today. They are building databases to accommodate more and more researchers. Yes, the yearly fee seems overwhelming to one not having a library with the subscription, but it is SO worth it. The History center in Troy, Ohio, is a wonderful resource center for Miami County research, with the added bonus, as has been posted, of Ancestry.com. There is another new site available for free, to all researchers looking for Ohio deaths. The death certificates are online for FREE...not even Ohio State can match that. Here is the website. You must log in and get a password, and that takes about a day. It is well worth it: http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/. Let's put the issue to rest and get on with positive, helpful research. De Hill -----Original Message----- From: ohmiami-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ohmiami-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Debbie Carder Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 11:09 PM To: ohmiami@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [OHMIAMI] Genealogy research sites. I don't put my info on ancestry or rootsweb anymore because if you change your e-mail address or password, you can't get into your pages to edit and correct them. I learned that long before ancestry owned rootsweb. But for research, especially the censuses and newspapers, ancestry is the best. When I was a "newbie", I posted my genealogy on rootsweb and hadn't documented all of it yet. Later, as I gained experience, I knew that I had a lot of errors in it and I had a new e-mail address and couldn't get in to correct my pages. I contacted rootsweb and told them the situation and their attitude was "tough luck" and nothing has ever been done. I can always tell when I look at others' pages who got their information out of my old tree and I cringe when I see the incorrect info. I don't want to mislead anyone but can't get it changed. When possible, I e-mail the person or put a post em with the correction. My suggestion, though, is this. If you want to put your info online, then put it on tribalpages. Their websites are beautiful and have great features and are free and very simple to do and if you don't want just anyone looking at them, you can set them so that others have to get a password from you, although, I prefer that anyone researching my families be able to assess my site. The wonderful thing is, though, in addition to having an extremely nice website is that you can go in and edit, correct, add, delete, or change your information anytime. You are in complete control. If you want to see a couple of tribalpages websites or get your own, look below my name for mine. Debbie Carder Mayes http://allencogenealogysociety.homestead.com/Main.html www.tribalpages.com/tribes/deb6102 www.tribalpages.com/tribes/dac6102 www.rootsweb.com/~ohallen/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "jeanne hime" <jkh1952@yahoo.com> To: <ohmiami@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 12:32 AM Subject: [OHMIAMI] Genealogy research sites. > Hi, I use family search and ancestry.com. I have gotten alot of free > information from these sites and others. I have never subscribed to one of > these sites. If I want more information I use the library that I support > in my community or I go to a local historical society library or museum. > They are very gracious and open to sharing. If I want to register my > ancestors as a first family in that county, I join that society; I at > least try to leave a small donation to support their efforts. I use a PAF > file to organize and manage my family information. I downloaded this PAF > file for free from familysearch. I back up my file on a disc regularly to > protect my work from any difficulties with my computer. Volunteers staff > alot of these local institutions. Alot of the information on genealogy was > done by these tireless people long before I became interested in genealogy > and I am sincerely grateful to them for preserving my heritage. I agree > that the LDS websites can seem like a > juggernaut but I saw on a program on TV that they have information on > millions of names. It must be very costly to gather and preserve all of > that information. To manage it and make it available to everyone in so > many ways seems like an impossible task. I have not put any information > out there yet but I will when I am more confident in my own information. I > know that I will be responsible for the content and I don't want to make > any mistakes. I know that people will look at my file and possibly contact > me with new information, possible corrections or questions. This can only > make my information more accurate and complete. With such a wide audience > who knows what connections I might make. Each of us is an individual. Its > no big deal, do it however it suits you. Just have fun. Jeanne > > June London <londonjaws@modempool.com> wrote: This is very true. My > computer crashed a few years back and I lost my > genealogy information. I tried to get them to give me it and they said > only > with a subscription !! I said I gave it for free and they said thank you > and you need a subscription.. > June > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Linda H. Gutierrez" > > To: > Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 7:15 PM > Subject: Re: [OHMIAMI] Ancestry charges for almost everything > > >> News to me.... >> >> What sites would those be and WHERE on Ancestry is the information >> housed? >> >> Linda >> in Costa Rica >> Monroe County, NY Records and Family Genealogy >> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~monroenys/ >> Monroe County, NY History >> http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~monroenys/ >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Gwamma38@aol.com >> To: ohmiami@rootsweb.com >> Sent: 12 February, 2008 5:58 PM >> Subject: Re: [OHMIAMI] Ancestry charges for almost everything >> >> >> >> In a message dated 12-Feb-08 3:47:35 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, >> lilacarlhg@amnet.co.cr writes: >> >> >Ancestry does not USE anyone's research. They offer server space for >> anyone who wants to put it >there. They do nothing to it, the only >> changes made >> are those the contributor makes themselves. >The only one to own the >> information is the contributor. Ancestry has no claim to it. >> >> >> >> Ancestry DOES charge us to view our own research.....They have absorbed >> sites that were holding our info in a free site. That is what has gotten >> me angry >> with them. >> >> >> >> **************The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy >> Awards. 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