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From: Michael Ruddy <>
Subject: Re: Fw: [IA-IRISH] Irish website from Cyndi's List
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 19:43:21 -0500
In-Reply-To: <005601c1e25d$e4983220$4e0d48ce@oemcomputer>


>Dear mike, thanks for the suggestion on " " for searching special people. I
>am not certain about Ancestry.com I signed up, but every time I want to
>research what they say they have I get a notice I have to sign up for
>another section of their site.

Pat
The real reason to sign up for ancestry are the WorldTree entries which are
searchable once you have signed on. I come back to them time after time.
The Genealogy.com equivalent are the Family pages which are also in the
basic rate. The data bases you pay additional for are really a shot in the
dark, like the state lottery. My feeling is if you can't find it at
Rootsweb, LDS, Ancestry or Genealogy.com, the internet may not be the best
approach other than the search engines which can find web pages which are
not on the big 4. I agree both at Ancestry and Genealogy.com the object is
to lead you to where they can make money, and we can't fault them for that,
but, neither do we have to fork out a lot of cash for small specific data
bases. I signed up for the census at Ancestry but it took so long to load
it became frustrating and I cancelled (no small accomplishment, cancelling,
by the way).
Mike


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