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From: "Sherry" <>
Subject: RE: [MONTANA-L] Ancestry charges
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 07:24:05 -0700
In-Reply-To: <OCEFKBMAEIPGMMJFDADGCEKIILAA.kely@mt.net>


The US Subscription *includes* the census ($119.80/yr). The "Super
Subscription" includes the UK/Ireland and Newspapers ($189.95) (I'm
assuming it also includes Canada, although the grid doesn't mention
that). The US/Canada collection doesn't include the census records and
is $79.95. The US Census, UK/Ireland and Newspapers can be purchased
separately for $99.95/year each (I see the newspapers are "on sale" for
$79.95)

To me, it's a lot of money. To a lot of other researchers, it's a lot
of money. And transcriptions & indexes are *not* primary source
documents and are great for clues, but *good* research states to go to
the *original* documents, which a good professional genealogist would
do.

The census records are digitized images - this is good. I wish more of
their records were digitized images rather than transcriptions!

I'm grateful that our local library has the AncestryPlus subscription on
their computers so I can search the site for free!!

Sherry

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kathleen Ely [mailto:]
>Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 6:06 AM
>
>Ancestry is actually a great bargain if you consider how much
>it would cost you to hire a professional genealogist or if you
>consider how much work on your genealogy has already been
>done.

<snip>
>
>The SuperSite membership costs $189.95 per year and you get
>access to everything they have; the lesser memberships give
>you access to almost everything else they have except census
>and newspaper records. With a SuperSite membership you also
>get a discount on MyFamily.com web sites. That price is about
>what you would expect to pay for three hours of research with
>a professional genealogist.

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