Somehow I missed the original question about ancestry.com and genealogy.com, but I'd like to say that I'm not going to be without ancestry.com ever, I hope. Yes, there are things that are frustrating; the fact that the 1860 through 1910 censuses not indexed, for example; and the thing that REALLY bothers me is the fact that Tennessee censuses are not linked to the images. They assure me that they're working on it, but the sooner the better, because TN is the state I'm researching the most right now. Now those are my criticisms, but as I said, I'll continue subscribing. All the genealogy.com censuses are not indexed either, so a friend and I have an arrangement. I have ancestry.com; he has genealogy.com; so we look in the indexes for each other, since the indexed years are not the same in both programs. Works for us! I should have added that even though all the years are not indexed, in their databases are indexes for several states for all the years. Once I have the page number from there, it's not TOO difficult and time-consuming to find the image page. Barbara Dooley At 06:16 PM 5/1/03 EDT, you wrote: >In a message dated 5/1/2003 1:17:12 PM Central Daylight Time, >AmiS@xenologix.com writes: > > >> considering a membership to either Ancestry.com or Genealogy.com. Do people >> have advice or suggestions > > >I am currently using Ancestry.com, and am generally happy with it, but some >of the censuses are not indexed and, on my computer, it takes forever to >bring up an image. That can be time-consuming if you need to go through, >say, 38 pages of a township or even just one page of a newspaper because it's >broken down into sections per image. Newspaper and UK subscriptions are >additional to the main subscription. Genealogy.com also has add-on >subscriptions to the main subscription that are hard to resist getting. I'm >not sure if all the censuses are indexed in Genealogy.com. Just be sure you >really do want one or the other, because once they have your credit card >number it's hard to get a refund if you're not 100% happy. Incidentally, the >parent company of Ancestry.com, MyFamily.com, has acquired Genealogy.com. To >read the full press release, visit http://www.myfamilyinc.com/ and click on >"Press Room" in the menu. Unsure about what this means to subscribers. > >Good luck, >Jayne in Texas > > > >==== WILSON Mailing List ==== >How to unsubscribe fom list. >e-mail to WILSON-L-request@rootsweb.com >unsubscribe in message. > >

Hi Listers, I've been reading all these postings about ancestry.com, and I have to agree with Barbara. It's not perfect, but I subscribe to the entire package and do not plan to give it up. I've been a subscriber about 5 years now, and I've always been contacted when it's time for renewal, most often by phone. Certainly, it will be much better when they complete the census index for all the years, and get the images all linked properly, but I have found many cousins in all my lines which offsets any difficulties with the census images. When I come across errors, I report them to rightnow@ancestry.com and they always respond within 24 hours. For the annual fee, I don't think you could do much better. Old Grandma Jessi in TX ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara and James Dooley" <jb.dooley@verizon.net> To: <WILSON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 7:00 PM Subject: [WILSON-L] Ancestry.com and Genealogy.com > Somehow I missed the original question about ancestry.com and > genealogy.com, but I'd like to say that I'm not going to be without > ancestry.com ever, I hope. Yes, there are things that are frustrating; the > fact that the 1860 through 1910 censuses not indexed, for example; and the > thing that REALLY bothers me is the fact that Tennessee censuses are not > linked to the images. They assure me that they're working on it, but the > sooner the better, because TN is the state I'm researching the most right > now. > Barbara Dooley > > > At 06:16 PM 5/1/03 EDT, you wrote: > >In a message dated 5/1/2003 1:17:12 PM Central Daylight Time, > >AmiS@xenologix.com writes: > > > > > >> considering a membership to either Ancestry.com or Genealogy.com. Do > people > >> have advice or suggestions >

I should have said one more thing. Ancestry.com sends me an email notice when it is time to renew, and I don't have trouble getting help from them, usually within 24 hours. A few months ago, a tech support woman and I emailed back and forth in real time until I had the answer I needed. Also, last year when I had a problem with something that was supposed to be there but wasn't, they added an extra month to my subscription year because of it. I've said enough--everyone can tell that I highly recommend it. Barbara At 10:00 PM 5/1/03 -0400, you wrote: >Somehow I missed the original question about ancestry.com and >genealogy.com, but I'd like to say that I'm not going to be without >ancestry.com ever, I hope. Yes, there are things that are frustrating; the >fact that the 1860 through 1910 censuses not indexed, for example; and the >thing that REALLY bothers me is the fact that Tennessee censuses are not >linked to the images. They assure me that they're working on it, but the >sooner the better, because TN is the state I'm researching the most right >now. Now those are my criticisms, but as I said, I'll continue >subscribing. All the genealogy.com censuses are not indexed either, so a >friend and I have an arrangement. I have ancestry.com; he has >genealogy.com; so we look in the indexes for each other, since the indexed >years are not the same in both programs. Works for us! I should have >added that even though all the years are not indexed, in their databases >are indexes for several states for all the years. Once I have the page >number from there, it's not TOO difficult and time-consuming to find the >image page. > >Barbara Dooley > > >At 06:16 PM 5/1/03 EDT, you wrote: >>In a message dated 5/1/2003 1:17:12 PM Central Daylight Time, >>AmiS@xenologix.com writes: >> >> >>> considering a membership to either Ancestry.com or Genealogy.com. Do >people >>> have advice or suggestions >> >> >>I am currently using Ancestry.com, and am generally happy with it, but some >>of the censuses are not indexed and, on my computer, it takes forever to >>bring up an image. That can be time-consuming if you need to go through, >>say, 38 pages of a township or even just one page of a newspaper because >it's >>broken down into sections per image. Newspaper and UK subscriptions are >>additional to the main subscription. Genealogy.com also has add-on >>subscriptions to the main subscription that are hard to resist getting. I'm >>not sure if all the censuses are indexed in Genealogy.com. Just be sure you >>really do want one or the other, because once they have your credit card >>number it's hard to get a refund if you're not 100% happy. Incidentally, >the >>parent company of Ancestry.com, MyFamily.com, has acquired Genealogy.com. >To >>read the full press release, visit http://www.myfamilyinc.com/ and click on >>"Press Room" in the menu. Unsure about what this means to subscribers. >> >>Good luck, >>Jayne in Texas >> >> >> >>==== WILSON Mailing List ==== >>How to unsubscribe fom list. >>e-mail to WILSON-L-request@rootsweb.com >>unsubscribe in message. >> >> > > >==== WILSON Mailing List ==== >List owner >WILSON-admin@rootsweb.com > >