Anyone have a subscription to Ancestry.com?

[IA_Seth]

I'd love to know if it is worth getting a membership...it says it has a few things I am interested in, but I've been duped before...

Thanks!

[malta blue]

1. I saw this in another forum

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=379x391

[Momgonepostal]

2. If you are close to an LDS family history center...

Some of them have subscriptions, so patrons can use the service for free.

Ancestry.com looks neat, but I'm just too cheap to pay for this kind of information.

[Momgonepostal]

4. Here's the address and phone

Cedar Rapids Iowa
4300 Trailridge Road SE
Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States
Phone: [phone]
Hours: T-Th 10am-1pm, T,Th 6:30pm-9pm; W 6pm-9pm; Sat 9am-12pm
Closed: Holiday weekends, last 2 weeks of December, 1st Sat of Apr & Oct
Attention: Call 319-393-5279 for appt during closed times.

Call and see if they have it. :-)

[IA_Seth]

5. Just my luck...

The phone number is disconnected!

Thanks for the tip though, I will drive by there tonight and see if maybe they are still around.

[Momgonepostal]

10. That stinks!

Let us know if you get in touch with them and they have Ancestry. I'm curious myself.

[Guava Jelly]

3. I have been on it through my sisters account

but not in the last year.
You can find a lot of very kewl Stuff on there.I have a family tree web page that ancestry.com really helped me with.
Mainly census research

[kwassa]

6. There are other sources

I had great luck using free LDS sites.

http://www.familysearch.org/

There are also geneological mailing lists for various parts of the country doing research, also free, through Rootsweb, the best free service I know of. If anything, there is almost too much geneological information on the Web. Some of it is of dubious value, though, so be careful.

http://www.rootsweb.com/

I think Ancestry.com is completely unnecessary.

I did find my father's entire line back to about 1560 in Scotland.

[skygazer]

7. Another vote for familysearch

I found a lot of valuable info there and it's easy to use. One caveat - I highly recommend using the info you get to enable you to find corroborating documentation. There are quite a few errors and multiple listings there - they essentially throw all their info out there and let you sort through it.

[IA_Seth]

9. Thank you!

Thus far I believe I have my family back to about 1709 in England, prior to that I am still on the hunt. I just need a few pieces of the tree tied together (that are thus far held together by family recollections and hearsay). It'd make me feel a lot more comfortable if I could get MY line tied to the rest of the research I've managed to stumble across.

[XNASA]

8. I had a month-long subscription.

And I found just about everything I was looking for and more.

Basically, you start with the 1930 Federal Census, which is the latest census available in a searchable database. From there, you kinda have to put things together like a puzzle.

But I was able to trace my lost family history back to England in the 1600's. And my wife's family to Scotland in the 1600's.

It was fun, and worth the $30.