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From: "Donna Mohney" <>
Subject: [PABUCKS-L] Ancestry trial memberships
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 16:09:37 -0500
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Felt I had to add my comments though I have no interest in Ancesty except
that I have been a subscriber for a couple of years.

First of all- Ancestry has added all those census sheets in the past year
(Little more- little less). They are completing indexes of each year as
fast as they can. The 1860 census is really new and will be indexed
eventually.

I also hate how slowly the pages load but tried it on a better computer at
work and found that it is mostly my computer that is the problem- and the
type of download system and amount of memory I have available. I now know
to click on a page- go read some email or do some editing on my FTM files,
etc. Then go back to the page.

To copy a whole page- I click on print and then "print Full page". If that
doesn't work for you- try saving the page and then printing from another
program. You can enlarge it on a scanner program, etc. to fill the whole
page. I use my MGI Photo to enlarge sections that are hard to read.

Ancestry's prices are reasonable compared to Genealogy.com which provides
census access to only the 1900 for more than ancestry charges for all they
have available.

Lastly- I find it impossible to get to a Mormon library or to travel to
California, New Mexico, Massachusetts, etc. to look at census records.
The expense and time would be out of reach for me. Ancestry allows me to
see and print copies of the originals much cheaper and at my own speed
without worrying that my time at the microfilm reader is over, the microfilm
printer won't work, etc.

That's my opinion- for what it's worth : ) I guess everyone should just try
for themselves.

(I do agree that their customer service could be improved but I have worse
problems with Genealogy.com which tells me I can write for help and get a
response in 5 days. After a month, I'm still waiting for a response.)

Lots of luck,

Donna


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