Yesterday, we had a small family gathering in Madras. My 2nd cousin Doris and her daughter were there. Had not seen Doris since we were teens. Anyway her daughter says she wants to search her grandfather Delbert's family. I came home and found Doris in 1940 census Her grandfather Alex was in house. So then I started searching for other census info.. I found Alex in 1930 and 1910 in Oreg, but when i clicked to see it, had to pay. Seems like everywhere I went there was Ancestry.com with their fees. Rootsweb was free site I used 2 or 3 years ago, but now they seem to be controlled by ancestry.com. So how can she search 1930 and prior census on line without paying. Surely ancestry.com can not keep us from public records. I did most of my census searching on film at LDS -----Original Message----- From: DSLeBlanc <DSLeBlanc@aol.com> To: orforum <orforum@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thu, Aug 9, 2012 7:23 am Subject: [GFO] 1940 Census Update Six more states are available at FamilySearch for the 1940 Census Indexing Project, for a total of thirty seven. They are Washington DC, Arkansas, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and West Virginia. That leaves fourteen still to come. While FS is behind Ancestry.com, which has all the states up, people are finding better indexing quality on FS. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORFORUM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

You are right, Phil. Ancestry cannot keep public records from you. However, they can charge you to use the index of those records that they made. You can go to Family Search where you may find the FS version of indexed records or you can find their copies of the original census records that you can read through until you find the people you are looking for. I'd recommend going to a public library that has an Ancestry subscription which means you can use their index of the various census records for free. Kristy On 8/14/12 3:17 PM, "phirl@aol.com" <phirl@aol.com> wrote: > > Yesterday, we had a small family gathering in Madras. My 2nd cousin Doris and > her daughter were there. Had not seen Doris since we were teens. Anyway her > daughter says she wants to search her grandfather Delbert's family. I came > home and found Doris in 1940 census Her grandfather Alex was in house. So > then I started searching for other census info.. I found Alex in 1930 and > 1910 in Oreg, but when i clicked to see it, had to pay. Seems like everywhere > I went there was Ancestry.com with their fees. > > Rootsweb was free site I used 2 or 3 years ago, but now they seem to be > controlled by ancestry.com. So how can she search 1930 and prior census on > line without paying. Surely ancestry.com can not keep us from public records. > I did most of my census searching on film at LDS > > > -----Original Message----- > From: DSLeBlanc <DSLeBlanc@aol.com> > To: orforum <orforum@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thu, Aug 9, 2012 7:23 am > Subject: [GFO] 1940 Census Update > > > Six more states are available at FamilySearch for the 1940 Census Indexing > Project, for a total of thirty seven. They are Washington DC, Arkansas, > Missouri, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and West Virginia. That leaves fourteen > still to come. While FS is behind Ancestry.com, which has all the states > up, people are finding better indexing quality on FS. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ORFORUM-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of > the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ORFORUM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message

Phil, I can't even imagine how much it costs Ancestry to put all of the records they put online. They have many employees doing this work. They also have the most amazing collection of records, well beyond what any other service has -- passenger list images (not found on the Ellis Island web site), city directories, etc. As a professional genealogist, Ancestry.com is my number one go to place for genealogical records. The free services just don't have the breadth and depth of information, although, I also use them. You are not paying for public records, you are paying for the effort that goes into making them available, in an easy to search interface. Peggy Peggy Baldwin, MLS Family Passages LLC www.familypassages.com 503-916-9410 Pacific Northwest & Oregon Trail -----Original Message----- From: orforum-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:orforum-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of phirl@aol.com Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 1:18 PM To: DSLeBlanc@aol.com; orforum@rootsweb.com Subject: [GFO] Census info Yesterday, we had a small family gathering in Madras. My 2nd cousin Doris and her daughter were there. Had not seen Doris since we were teens. Anyway her daughter says she wants to search her grandfather Delbert's family. I came home and found Doris in 1940 census Her grandfather Alex was in house. So then I started searching for other census info.. I found Alex in 1930 and 1910 in Oreg, but when i clicked to see it, had to pay. Seems like everywhere I went there was Ancestry.com with their fees. Rootsweb was free site I used 2 or 3 years ago, but now they seem to be controlled by ancestry.com. So how can she search 1930 and prior census on line without paying. Surely ancestry.com can not keep us from public records. I did most of my census searching on film at LDS -----Original Message----- From: DSLeBlanc <DSLeBlanc@aol.com> To: orforum <orforum@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thu, Aug 9, 2012 7:23 am Subject: [GFO] 1940 Census Update Six more states are available at FamilySearch for the 1940 Census Indexing Project, for a total of thirty seven. They are Washington DC, Arkansas, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and West Virginia. That leaves fourteen still to come. While FS is behind Ancestry.com, which has all the states up, people are finding better indexing quality on FS. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORFORUM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORFORUM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Every body has to make a buck and that is how Ancestry runs their business. They provide a service that is well worth the fees for many. There are alternative resources that can be accessed for free but they are not particularly efficient or user friendly. I personally love Ancestry because I don't have to leave my house and can do research at all hours of the day and night. Patti ----- Original Message ----- From: phirl@aol.com To: DSLeBlanc@aol.com ; orforum@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 1:17 PM Subject: [GFO] Census info Yesterday, we had a small family gathering in Madras. My 2nd cousin Doris and her daughter were there. Had not seen Doris since we were teens. Anyway her daughter says she wants to search her grandfather Delbert's family. I came home and found Doris in 1940 census Her grandfather Alex was in house. So then I started searching for other census info.. I found Alex in 1930 and 1910 in Oreg, but when i clicked to see it, had to pay. Seems like everywhere I went there was Ancestry.com with their fees. Rootsweb was free site I used 2 or 3 years ago, but now they seem to be controlled by ancestry.com. So how can she search 1930 and prior census on line without paying. Surely ancestry.com can not keep us from public records. I did most of my census searching on film at LDS -----Original Message----- From: DSLeBlanc <DSLeBlanc@aol.com> To: orforum <orforum@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thu, Aug 9, 2012 7:23 am Subject: [GFO] 1940 Census Update Six more states are available at FamilySearch for the 1940 Census Indexing Project, for a total of thirty seven. They are Washington DC, Arkansas, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and West Virginia. That leaves fourteen still to come. While FS is behind Ancestry.com, which has all the states up, people are finding better indexing quality on FS. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORFORUM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORFORUM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message