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From: "ernest hurst" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Surname Origin book
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 06:47:42 -0400


I've had subscription to Ancestry's census images for about three years.
During that time they have introduced the well indexed (IMHO) 1930 census
and have improved or completely re-indexed several census years. Wish they
would get 1900 & 1910 done. Maybe it's because I don't have anything to
compare to (Genealogy.com, etc.), but the images don't seem all that bad to
me. I've had to dig out the magnifying glass to read printed version
occasionally, but have never seen one that was totally unreadable. Before
I subscribed to Ancestry, I spent some time at Atlanta NARA facility & know
that some of census films are tough to read also, so it's not surprising
that some images are not so good. Somebody mentioned that you couldn't
print Ancestry's images, and that's absolutely incorrect. They have two
different downloadable viewers, depending on which year you're looking in,
and both print whole page just fine to letter size sheet.

If I'm remembering right the subscription costs around $120 a year. In my
opinion that's pretty cheap to be able to access it whenever you want to.
To put it into perspective, before I quit smoking, I was wasting that much
money or more, every month, on cigarettes.

Ernie Hurst, IBSSG


> [Original Message]
> From: William Hurst <>
> To: <>
> Date: 6/30/2004 8:55:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [DNA] Surname Origin book
>
> James wrote:
>
> >
> > Yes, but mainly for the U.S. Censuses. They have all-name indices for
> > 1850-1880. The 1880 index is the same as familysearch.org. However,
they
> > have the
> > original images, so can print them out or save them as a file.
> >
> > The biggest problem is that their images aren't as good as the
> > Genealogy.com
> > images, which come from HeritageQuest (ProQuest). However,
Genealogy.com
> > uses
> > its own index, which is really clunky. To get the best images, you have
to
> > subscribe to both. Genealogy.com already has the Family History Library
> > from
> > ProQuest, which is really useful.
>
> A year ago I had to use Ancestry.com and Genealogy.com to get all the
census
> images and indexes. I still have the 1880 LDS CD set for that index! But
now
> I get HeritageQuest through my local library. I type in my library card
> number and search at home. Both services are moving to have all years
> indexed. It's nice to have that choice. I have found people in one index
who
> didn't show up in the other. And the Heritage Quest index is not clunky
as
> is Genealogy.com's. My favorite two spellings used on these services for
> Hurst are Harest and Huset.
>
> However, I recently saw that Ancestry.com and ProQuest/HeritageQuest are
> working together. I predict things will get better or they will get
worse.
> And you can quote me on that!
>
> Don't know how this thread got started, but to keep Ann happy: DNA.
>
> Bill Hurst
>
>
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