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sharonf

Ancestry.Com Trial

Legg inn av sharonf » 08 mar 2007 17:38:07

I have a few loose ends to fill in on the family trees that I've been
working on and have more or less reached dead ends. I've been thinking
about getting a short subscription to ancestry.com just to see if I can
fill out that missing information so when I saw the notice for the three
day free trial I jumped at the chance. After three days of searching I
was only able to add one small item to my records. I was so
disappointed. I guess I expected many more records to be available with
a subscription. I am interested in more birth, death, and marriage
records for the US and Canada as well as more census records. I was also
hoping to find information in the records from Ireland and I found none.
Am I missing something somewhere?

dyczko

Re: Ancestry.Com Trial

Legg inn av dyczko » 08 mar 2007 20:58:50

sharonf wrote:

I have a few loose ends to fill in on the family trees that I've been
working on and have more or less reached dead ends. I've been thinking
about getting a short subscription to ancestry.com just to see if I can
fill out that missing information so when I saw the notice for the three
day free trial I jumped at the chance. After three days of searching I
was only able to add one small item to my records. I was so
disappointed. I guess I expected many more records to be available with
a subscription. I am interested in more birth, death, and marriage
records for the US and Canada as well as more census records. I was also
hoping to find information in the records from Ireland and I found none.
Am I missing something somewhere?

Most US public libraries have free access to Ancestry. Some have
different levels of access than others. You might try there as a
starting point.

Hugh Watkins

Re: Ancestry.Com Trial

Legg inn av Hugh Watkins » 08 mar 2007 21:04:03

sharonf wrote:

I have a few loose ends to fill in on the family trees that I've been
working on and have more or less reached dead ends. I've been thinking
about getting a short subscription to ancestry.com just to see if I can
fill out that missing information so when I saw the notice for the three
day free trial I jumped at the chance. After three days of searching I
was only able to add one small item to my records. I was so
disappointed. I guess I expected many more records to be available with
a subscription. I am interested in more birth, death, and marriage
records for the US and Canada as well as more census records. I was also
hoping to find information in the records from Ireland and I found none.
Am I missing something somewhere?

yes

at some point you have to go to archives and get dusty

Hugh W

--

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http://www.ingerlisekristoffersen.dk/

Beta blogger
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Huntersglenn

Re: Ancestry.Com Trial

Legg inn av Huntersglenn » 08 mar 2007 23:41:03

sharonf wrote:
I have a few loose ends to fill in on the family trees that I've been
working on and have more or less reached dead ends. I've been thinking
about getting a short subscription to ancestry.com just to see if I can
fill out that missing information so when I saw the notice for the three
day free trial I jumped at the chance. After three days of searching I
was only able to add one small item to my records. I was so
disappointed. I guess I expected many more records to be available with
a subscription. I am interested in more birth, death, and marriage
records for the US and Canada as well as more census records. I was also
hoping to find information in the records from Ireland and I found none.
Am I missing something somewhere?

Ancestry has several levels of subscriptions, and I'm not sure what was
offered during their 3 day trial. For instance, it could be that the
trial included U.S. censuses, but not the English ones. They've just
recently added Canadian records (or will be adding them soon), but they
are a separate subscription.

With regard to other records, it's more a matter of whether or not the
government in question has provided them or sold the rights to them to
ancestry.com. You can access North Carolina birth, death and marriage
records (most ending at the year 2000), because the state sold those
records to ancestry (or rather, to ancestry's parent company), but you
won't find those same records for every state. In some cases, the type
of records that you're looking for might not even be available online,
and you'd have no other choice than to make a trip to the locality in
question to get a copy of the event (or the record might have been
destroyed. There are many counties in Virginia that had their records
destroyed during the Civil War, or by fires at other times.)

I find the GenWeb system to be a good start for finding out just what
kind of records might be available on-line, or in book form:

http://www.usgenweb.org/

From there, you can chose the state and then county that you're
interested in finding documents for, and most (not all) of the County
sites will have something - either a link to a government office or a
paragraph or something, that will let you know just what records are
available for that County and how to see them or get copies of them.

There's also a GenWeb site for the world at large:
http://worldgenweb.org/

And for within the United Kingdom and Ireland, GENUKI is a great source
of information about where to find information:
http://www.genuki.org.uk/

Again, with ancestry, it could be that you had little luck because the
free trial didn't include databases that would have the information that
you're looking for. You can try asking here for help, as many of us do
have subscriptions to ancestry, and between the lot of us, probably
cover all of the subscription types <g>. If you do decide to ask for
help here, then please give us much information on the person as
possible - names of spouse, children, siblings, where and when born,
where lived, where died, etc. If you're looking for John Doe in
England, then we can't try to find him because there's just too many of
him, but if you know that he's John Doe, born around 1810, lived in
Nottinghamshire, married to Susan, had at least two children, John and
Thomas, and died in Nottinghamshire in 1865, then that narrows the
possibilities down quite a bit.

Good luck,
Cathy

Hugh Watkins

Re: Ancestry.Com Trial

Legg inn av Hugh Watkins » 09 mar 2007 02:14:41

Huntersglenn wrote:

sharonf wrote:

I have a few loose ends to fill in on the family trees that I've been
working on and have more or less reached dead ends. I've been thinking
about getting a short subscription to ancestry.com just to see if I
can fill out that missing information so when I saw the notice for the
three day free trial I jumped at the chance. After three days of
searching I was only able to add one small item to my records. I was
so disappointed. I guess I expected many more records to be available
with a subscription. I am interested in more birth, death, and
marriage records for the US and Canada as well as more census records.
I was also hoping to find information in the records from Ireland and
I found none. Am I missing something somewhere?


Ancestry has several levels of subscriptions, and I'm not sure what was
offered during their 3 day trial. For instance, it could be that the
trial included U.S. censuses, but not the English ones. They've just
recently added Canadian records (or will be adding them soon), but they
are a separate subscription.


snip


best to use the free stuff
thee are two basic subscriptions

local or whole world
best of all experimenet with the free stuff like 1881 and 1880 census
and freebmd.org.uk
familysearch.org


I can't advise you if you don't give some names, places, occupations and
dates

Hugh W

--

a wonderful artist in Denmark
http://www.ingerlisekristoffersen.dk/

Beta blogger
http://snaps4.blogspot.com/ photographs and walks

old blogger GENEALOGE
http://hughw36.blogspot.com/ MAIN BLOG

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