Opinions please on geneology sites?

Question

For those of you who have tried them, which site do you think is a better buy and has more information and why? It is a toss up for me to subscribe to geneology.com or ancestory.com.

Answer 1

I have a membership to Ancestry.com and have found the information to be invaluable. Another membership I have that has been wonderful and is "dirt cheap" has been to the godfrey library.

www.godfrey.org

The membership runs about $35.00 a year . They have all kinds of things available. One of thie things I love is the obituary databases that they offer. If you have ever seen Newspaper archive online, you know that they charge 99 dollars a year. With the Godfrey library membership that is included along with SCORES of other resources. It is really handy and when you think that to have access to all of this runs three dollars a month, it doesn't get better than that!!

Here's a sampling of a few things you have access to

American National Biography
NewspaperARCHIVE.com (Heritage Microfilm)
Oxford African American Studies Center
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Paper of Record
Reference USA
The London Times Digital Archive (Gale)
Accessible Archives (19th C Newspapers; African American Newspapers; State Histories)
African American Newspapers
Columbia Gazetteer
Early American Newspapers (1,200 titles) NewsBank
Marquis Who's Who
NewsBank America's Obituaries
NewsBank US & World Newspapers (1,400 + titles)
OCLC WorldCat

Answer 2

Hey Vivib,

If you get the Family Tree Maker software it comes with Genealogy.com for a couple months for free. Once you extract all the trees you can from there it is not of any more use. But Ancestory.com has so much more information about so many more genealogy topics, if you are going to subscribe Take Ancestry.com - just my opinion.

Answer 3

I do genealogy for my family and I have found ancestry.com to be the best. They have continuous updates, and that's probably why they charge a lot, but you can get a free membership or choose to get a memberships for only a few months. Searching your family will, in most instances, take many years. Mine was difficult but took me six years of intensive day and night search. So I had ancestry.com for two years and the rest of the time I've searched thru all the other genealogy websites and searched the internet for other trees (like on the yahoo search engine). Start with searching obituary notices and church, funeral home and cemetery information, and funeral home cards, and asking family for all the information they can contribute (i.e. who all they know was in the family, any family history, and where family lived, and back as far as they can...after you have that as far as you can, "then" get a subscription..

Answer 4

I have only ever paid subscription to ancestry.com. You cannot beat the every-person indexed census there, and the options given to search census, if that's all you pay for.

I do use many other free online resources of course, especially rootsweb's message boards and email lists. I have even found good clues at familysearch.org but know to be cautious -- although that's true anywhere! Don't rely on what someone else has online, check it out yourself.

Answer 5

beneficial. the final place to commence is with an obituary. many times circumstances, those checklist the family participants. Many newspapers now have online documents you could seek for this style of documents. good success.

Answer 6

I'm very happy with my ancestry.com membership. They have more resources for you to search.