I have international ancestry.com, but quite a bit of my research is NOT in Ancestry! A distant relative was in the Civil War - not found in Ancestry. Found on a Civil War site. If I plug in Surname and State I get every name starting with the first Surname letter and every state you've ever heard of. Sometimes, what I want is on page 5! Correct surname and state which should be the first name given. Most Azores info I have gotten from this site for which I am really thankful. On the other hand, I found some fourth cousins, relatives by marriage, etc. on Ancestry. - Shirl -
Jesse, I agree with you. I have FTM but use Ancestry all the time. Don't have to take my computer with me when I go researching. I am amazed at Genealogy meetings at all the people who have nothing but bad things to say about the site. I frankly don't understand their reasoning. I am happy to make connections with people that are researching the same people I am. If I have information they have not been able to find...I am happy to share. Appreciate when they open doors for me, too. I back up to everything including online back up sites. JoElayne From: Jesse Pacheco <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, March 18, 2011 1:02:19 PM Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] genealogy organization With the very little time I have for genealogy lately, organization, which is already not my strong point, is something I'm always looking for a quicker, easier way to accomplish. While I know it's not the most secure method, I love using Ancestry.com 's online family tree maker. In conjunction with their new iPhone app, it gives me easy access to all of my information anywhere. I can attach documents to any specific "event" in an ancestor's life, which is very helpful for organization. Having someone's baptism record right on their baptism information, along with a transcription, is great. I don't use an actual offline software regularly (just to open/export gedcoms) but I'm pretty sure most can do what the website does. The difference is that the website is free (not the records on it though) and so are the updates, which is nice. It's also available anywhere you have internet access, which is another key factor for me. While I do backup all of my scanned documents and information to my hard drive, in case the website goes down, I recognize that even that isn't permanent. I unfortunately just don't have the time or space to maintain a physical copy of every piece of information. So Ancestry works for me! I attached a screenshot of a "Person Page" for my great great grandfather to show how it all works. On 3/18/2011 12:19 PM, Karen wrote: > As I collect information on my Azorean roots, I enter it into my > genealogy software program (I use Legacy).. But what do you do with > the paper. When I started out, I didn't have much but slowly I'm > collecting history, language, search sites, birth, marriage etc. > certificates or transcriptions.. How do you organize this so you can > find it. I would be interested in what you all use that works for you > before I decide. Files,computer???? > > Thanks > Karen > -- Jesse Pacheco [email protected] -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to Azores+ [email protected] . Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores . Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores . Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership."
