I have to add my two cents on the Ancestry vs. Genealogy debate: I agree completely with Ann Sullivan although I use Internet Explorer exclusively and have never had any problem seeing the census images. In addition, now that I have DSL, browsing the census images is feasible. My biggest complaint about Genealogy.com is that I cannot browse by last name. I have some very unusual last names but if I can't come up with a first name I can't go any farther. So I have both subscriptions and feel I have gotten my money's worth. Patricia Johnson Sacramento, CA PABRADFO-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > ATTACHMENT part 1 message/rfc822 PABRADFO-D Digest Volume 04 : Issue 58 Today's Topics: #1 Brad Co Hist Soc extended hours ["montrose" ] #2 Re: [Tri-Counties] Ancestry vs. Ge ["Ann Y. Sullivan" Administrivia: To unsubscribe from PABRADFO-D, send a message to PABRADFO-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________ > ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822 Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 06:36:14 -0400 From: "montrose" To: PABRADFO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Brad Co Hist Soc extended hours The Bradford County Historical Society has extended Saturday hours, which was adopted at last evening's Board meeting. The research library will be open from 10 to 2, an additional two hours, and the museum from 10 to 3. Also, the Board welcomes two new Board members - Anne Sturzen of Towanda and Matt Carl of LeRoy and President of the LeRoy Historical Society. J. Kelsey Jones ______________________________ > ATTACHMENT part 3 message/rfc822 Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 11:31:55 -0700 From: "Ann Y. Sullivan" To: PABRADFO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [Tri-Counties] Ancestry vs. Genealogy.com I've been away and missed last month's discussion re Ancestry.com vs. Genealogy.com. I'm glad to find out that I'm not the only one who can't read Ancestry's census images with Netscape and now, reading this message from Mary, I'm very very glad I just gave up on the problem and only visit Ancestry.com in Internet Explorer. I use both Ancestry.com vs. Genealogy.com, and my chief complaint about Genealogy.com is that it's extremely tedious to wade through search results and getting worse as more databases are added. But in spite of that, the Family and Local Histories subscription at Genealogy.com has been very useful to me and probably worth every dollar I've spent on it. Not many of those old regional histories and genealogies are available online in any form. (Tri-Counties researchers are truly blessed having such a huge data collection transcribed and searchable for free!) Genealogy.com has saved me countless hours and $'s for travel to distant libraries where you are often not allowed to make photocopies of fragile old books. Much of the material they have online has been microfilmed, but ordering and reading microfilm also involves time and money and inconvenience. Long ago I found my ggg grandparents in the Tri-Counties transcription of Craft's history of Bradford Co., but until I looked at the images of the actual pages at Genealogy.com, I had no idea that Craft had included pictures of them and their residence. That discovery alone convinced me that I'd gotten my money's worth. Annie Sullivan At 10:38 PM 5/13/2004 -0400, Mary Wozniak wrote: >Carol, If you use Netscape, I hope you haven't spent your money on >Ancestry, yet! With Netscape, Ancestry only works with versions 4.6 or >7.0. I used Ancestry's link to update from Netscape 6.0 to 7.0. However, >Ancestry's link actually took me to version 7.1, not 7.0, which I didn't >notice until it was installed in my computer. Ancestry's census images >can't be read or printed with 7.1, so I attempted to un-install 7.1. It >didn't completely un-install. I had to send to Netscape and buy a CD of >version 7.0. That still didn't work. To make a long story short, I was >without my desktop computer for over five months, while it was in the shop >. Eventually everything had to be wiped out of the drive and new programs >reinstalled. Fortunately, my genealogy files were in my laptop. > >Also, If you are on a fixed income, the way Ancestry bundles their >services gets very, very expensive! And, yes, I realize that the services >they provide cost them a lot. But, the arrogance of their tech staff - if >you can even ferret them out - leaves a lot to be desired. > >My recommendation is to use Ancestry, sparingly, if at all. More and >more web sites are springing up. You might try "Googling" the thing for >which you are searching. Good Luck. > >Mary