David1961
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Wondering if anyone here has used Ancestry.com and if so, what your experiences were.
(Along the same lines, it used to be said that, in Australia, an 'aristocrat' is someone who can trace his ancestry back to his father.)
There are plenty of mistakes in old handwritten registers, and plenty of mistakes made by people transcribing them to put them online. Still, it can be fun if you like history.
The best thing to do is go to your nearest Family history center. Ancestry.com is free to use there. Ancestry.com is awesome. At the FHC there is always an experienced researcher to help you look up census records or any other records they might have.Wondering if anyone here has used Ancestry.com and if so, what your experiences were.
On my Danish side, I have found databases that seem to go back very far and indicate the city or town where they lived although I don't remember there being a street address.
The best thing to do is go to your nearest Family history center. Ancestry.com is free to use there. Ancestry.com is awesome. At the FHC there is always an experienced researcher to help you look up census records or any other records they might have.
The best thing to do is go to your nearest Family history center. Ancestry.com is free to use there. Ancestry.com is awesome. At the FHC there is always an experienced researcher to help you look up census records or any other records they might have.
Yes, the LDS church runs the Family history centers. You do not need to be LDS to use their records and facility for free. Once you are in the building, you will need to write your name on a registry. You will be asked your first and last name, the date, and what stake or ward you are from with the LDS church and what records you wish to use. All you have to do is put "visitor" in that spot if you are not LDS and mark that you want to use a computer.Is that sponsored by the LDS church? If so, can "gentiles" use it? I've used their free Family Search site for years - a wonderful public service.
I've been researching on and off since my first job MANY years ago. Around 1976, many US citizens became interested. I started with a hand-drawn tree, and later used MacDraw to enter it into a computer. Every ten years or so something would trigger another foray into genealogy. Chance encounters with other family members (who found me) produced a lot of data and history.Wondering if anyone here has used Ancestry.com and if so, what your experiences were.
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You can search for free from the comfort of your home. What is missing sometimes is the an image record upon which results are based. Sometimes, but not always.Looks like the closest one to me is an 80-mile round trip. I'll pass, but thanks for the tip.
What comes into question is what the individual (often an immigrant) said, how the census taker heard it, what they wrote, how it went through OCR, and what corrections have been made. For example, there are 6 census records I have for GM's parents home. Problem was that there were 5 different spelling of last name! It took a bit of searching to find the actual records, since the spellings were off. At ancestry.com I found the image records (came from familysearch) and saved those.
So, you can find the record information for whatever you search, and later make a trip to FHC family history center and get the images. My local person allowed me to save the files to USB. Or they will print for you.