ancestry or genealogy?
Michael
information access. Which one is better? Which one has better
information? I did a quick search for a relative, and they both came
up pretty short (why would someone born in 1867 in La be listed on the
1870 voter's roll in Tn? Twenty times no less! Anyway, any information
you guys could provide would be mostly appreciated.
Michael
Michael
wrote:
Sorry.... don't know if this will change opinions, but I am using
Family Tree Maker 2005. Thanks
Michael
Huntersglenn
a bunch of other records (veteran's info, etc.). Their census records
are a LOT easier to search than those that genealogy.com has.
Genealogy.com has more genealogical related books (mostly the stuff that
they sell). Ancestry owns genealogy.com, and there have been more new
things added to ancestry than to genealogy.com over the years.
So, between those two, I'd recommend ancestry.com.
Cathy
Bruce Remick
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"I'm thinking of buying a car. Which one is the best?"
Difficult to give a useful answer to this question or yours without some idea of
what you expect either to do for you. Do you have a few ancestors you're
looking for information on? Are you researching everyone in your ancestral
line? US? Overseas? 1900's? 1800's? Earlier?
Some of these subscriptions can be rather expensive (bang for the buck-wise) if
you only have a few brick walls you're trying to climb. And it can be
frustrating to find no mention of the folks you're looking for in any of the
search resources the different plans offer. If you've never subscribed to any
online genealogy site before, I would recommend either taking advantage of
Ancestry's free trial offers to get a taste of what's out there, or invest $35
for a years experience as a Godfrey Scholar. Here you get online access to most
of the US census, and a wealth of additional research material.
On the other hand, if you only have a few specific questions about that person
from 1867 LA, you could ask them here for free.
Bruce
Sherry
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I use Ancestry at my local library as it's free there. Way
overpriced, IMHO and if I couldn't get it free, I wouldn't be able to
afford to use it, but I've been happy with the results I've gotten.
Generalogy.com is a bust for me. I don't know why (and I've been
through this a bunch of times on the soc.genealogy.computing group),
but I can *never* get any results when I do a search on their site,
even with super common names. Others have been able to get results
and have sent me the URL to the results list, but I've been totally
unsuccessful (with or without cookies!)
Sherry
Rich256
Never had much luck with either one. Familysearch helped a little but lots
of mail to lots of relatives and possible relatives is what really paid off.
Tara
Of these two, I'd have to go with Ancestry all the way. I have both, and
Ancestry not only has more info, but you can actually find it.
Genealogy.com's search engine is mostly worthless (just my opinion). You can
only search on first and last name in most databases, and they don't have
soundex options, so you have to think of every possible spelling variation,
enumerator/county clerk misspelling and transcriber error. They have options
for place of birth and year of birth and such in a whole site search, but it
doesn't actually have much effect on the number of hits you get. In some
databases, it will change the order in which the results are listed.
Ancestry has search options for first and/or last name, with soundex and
wildcards so that you can put in only some of the letters of a name (the
ones that will be the same regardless of spelling variations in the rest of
the name), place of birth, age, year of birth +/-, and even keywords, so
that you can put in a spouses maiden name or a township name or whatever
other kernel of info you may have that will narrow your search. To me it's
no contest. And, as Huntersglenn said, Ancestry owns Genealogy, and they
haven't added much to it recently. I think they're going to phase it out in
some fashion.
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Tara Larkin
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DartmanX
this:
Log onto your local library's website and see if they offer
HeritageQuest access remotely to their cardholders. Although HQ "only"
offers Census, Books, PERSI, and Rev. War Pension files, it may not
cost you a dime to start there, then decide if you need to pay for
Ancestry or Genealogy.
And if your local library doesn't offer HQ, the state library might.
Jason
Alan Jones
Ancestr.com does NOT own Genealogy.com.
They are both owned by the same company, I think it is Myfamily.com
Alan
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