Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
ancestry.com was founded in Utah and is still based there. It may not be owned by the church, but may have been started by them. Or it may have been started privately by Mormons, which is not the same thing as being owned by the church. It's currently owned by a company called Spectrum Investors, but has been owned by other companies after it became publicly traded.
Anyway it is a for profit enterprise that uses volunteers to build databases that the volunteers themselves can't use without subscribing or going to a library that has ancestry. Not all libraries can afford ancestry. The library subscription cost is higher than the private subscription.
Ancestry has never been associated with the LDS church, though its founders were members of the church. It's been through several company names since the beginning, but has always been a privately owned company.
Whether the service is of value to anyone depends on their own personal research, and how they determine value. But unless anyone's ancestry is fairly recent in America, or they're not bothering to do full family research (like only doing direct line ancestors) I would seriously refute that anyone would ever get "everything" off of Ancestry. Especially considering they're adding new records all the time.
I recently found a lot of info on relatives after googling for a relative's name. There he was on the main google page and it led me to: Genealogy.com - Family Tree Maker Family History Software and Historical Records. This is the main site after removing the other stuff for that particular page. As long as I clicked from that first google link I was able to search without registering and see names, DOB and some DOD plus married names of cousins that I would never have known otherwise. If you start from the main page you have to register to look at the data and it appears to be free. Just start with a name in a browser and see what happens. Good luck!
"Everything" off of ancestry? Whatchu talkin' 'bout, Willis?
someone upthread said: "I got all I could out of it at the library. Because I seem to have exhausted its resources" I was just trying to be more succinct.
I just started doing it. They are VERY nice in their emails.
I have a large choice of records to choose from and am in fact NOT doing their highest priority project which is 1940 US census. I have little interest in it as it is far past my brick walls.
I just started doing it. They are VERY nice in their emails.
I have a large choice of records to choose from and am in fact NOT doing their highest priority project which is 1940 US census. I have little interest in it as it is far past my brick walls.
For ancestry, I'm guessing? Not for familysearch...
An arbitrator reviews and compares the data entry efforts of two other people with the original document.
Too bad they don't always listen.
I have corrected misspellings of my mother, uncle, aunt and grandmother on one census and was flatly e-mailed that I had to be wrong. [Gees, since I grew up with these people, but didn't have any "documents" (I guess Grandma's bible wasn't good enough -- no one ever asked) and some census taker didn't copy it right? ] The same person who wanted to claim my family was in MN and had the wrong name for my g-grandmother ( spelling of first and entire last). She made comments first. I got shafted... and I know the house and have the Bible.
BTW, the family NEVER left NYC... but "leaf" lady in MN got her fake data in on my family because she got a leaf . And Ancestry wants to know why I only use them for data and use 2 citations???????????????
Buffalo. Perhaps the inexed original document reads incorrectly. My great grandfathers family is very clearly messed up in the 1910 census. The ENUMERATOR messed it up in 1910. The indexes are supposed to look at how it READS even if its wrong by the original source.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
"Everything" off of ancestry? Whatchu talkin' 'bout, Willis?
