I agree – this is an interesting conversation!
Subscriptions to Ancestry.com and Newspapers.com strike me as a good combination. Newspapers.com seems to offer a lot that Ancestry.com does not have. You get a lot of “bang for the buck”. Do others have recommended combinations of genealogy sites that provide a lot of information with minimal duplication? From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Hall Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 9:29 AM To: Legacy User Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Is MyHeritage Worth It? Such an interesting conversation! It would be very nice if there were a side-by-side comparison of each site's catalogs such that you could see where the sites overlap and where they are unique. Perhaps where they are unique interests you, perhaps it does not. I know no place that does this for us, and my half-committed attempts to do it myself showed only that its a monumental exercise and that the catalogs of each site are not always easy or available. I've been a member of Ancestry for years now, and it remains the most complete site out there. I also use FamilySearch (free!) and recently joined Newspapers.com. One strategy I've though of doing is to rotate my memberships -- let Ancestry elapse (not renew) and join MyHertiage. Use that for a year or so, let it elapse, move to the next. One other thought is to focus on a certain area (e.g. vital records, immigration records, newspapers, etc.). Nearly all lines of my family save one come from Rochester, NY, and when looking for obituaries, I did a focused review of the catalogs of GenealogyBank, Newspapers.com, NewspaperArchive and Ancestry. I attempted to catalog only the newspapers for the counties/cities/towns the Rochester metro area. From this I knew that Newspapers.com was the best site for me to start with. A similar strategy may be employed for other types of records. Or, if you want to start a project to export each site's catalog and make it available to compare and contrast, I'd be willing to help. :) Scott On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 10:10 AM, Linda Hodges <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Family search has records Ancestry has records Find my past has records My heritage has records Fold 3 has records YES, they may overlap. YES, some may have sets others don't. Want to see what they have with out paying? Use their catalog search to see the record sets they offer. Go to your local library/FAMILY History Library. Most libraries have FREE ACCESS, to one or more of the pay sites. We need to understand RECORDS can be found many places, as can trees. Yes, tress can be wrong, but so can records. Boops can also be incorrect. People lie. Yes even your ancestors and mine. Women were pregnant before marriage. Men cheated on their wives and had babies with other women. Women cheated on husbands and then said the baby was hubby's. Men lied about their age to go to war. Both sexs lied about being widowed. And the list goes on. Use trees as HINTS to point you in a direction you may not have thought of. All facts found are only as good as the researcher who reported them at that time. On Sep 5, 2017 9:45 AM, "Philip Solida" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Maybe they do... but are they different, or just a rehash of Ancestry site records? Lots of new and different records may have value, while repeating what you already have, would not. On Sep 5, 2017 9:07 AM, "Linda Hodges" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: My heritage has RECORDS!!! It's not just trees. On Sep 5, 2017 9:04 AM, "Donna Rodriguez" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Is MyHeritage yet another conglomeration of undocumented "family trees"? Without complete documentation from primary sources, then value to the serious family researcher seems dubious. Regards, Donna -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
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