Posted: 1/31/2016 8:24:50 PM EDT
| My mom has recently expressed interest in exploring her genealogy. Anyone ever use it? |
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It's an awesome collaborative tool for discovering your ancestry.
The database and software running it is very sophisticated. However, it gets very expensive to keep access to your data and your network of researchers. You can go to your local LDS Family History Center and have access for free. After your research, make sure you export your data to a GEDCOM file format so you can save and keep it. |
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Yeah. Paid $30 for a monthly fee and found out someone else had already done my whole tree. Waste of time. Why is that a waste of your time if someone else did all the work for you? The further back you go in your family tree, the more people you are related to, and the more likely you will find someone has already done the research. In fact, that is the main strength of the network, connecting your family trees together. |
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Quoted: Ripoff, you can find much of the same info through your own searches. Start here: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gs& https://familysearch.org/search/ You will find an amazing amount of information in obits too. |
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Hmm, I get it for free. 
Your whole tree? They may have thrown a bunch of names on there but how much can they backup with source verification? Quoted:
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Yeah. Paid $30 for a monthly fee and found out someone else had already done my whole tree. Waste of time. Hmm, I get it for free.
Your whole tree? They may have thrown a bunch of names on there but how much can they backup with source verification? I could have joined some site for free being LDS but I didn't know about it ahead of time. Most of the stuff on my tree had government paperwork that was photographed. I didn't care to go too far back. Quoted:
Why is that a waste of your time if someone else did all the work for you? The further back you go in your family tree, the more people you are related to, and the more likely you will find someone has already done the research. In fact, that is the main strength of the network, connecting your family trees together. I wanted a fun side hobby. Not a few hours worth of reading someone elses work. |
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spent a week or so on it. traced my dad's people back to lillehammer, norway in the late 1700s, but didn't want to pay the fee for further international records. mom's side of the family immigrated more recently and included americanized name changes, so i didn't make any headway past my maternal grandfather.
did find out that dad's side has a substantial family plot in nebraska. hope to make a pilgrimage, just to say thank you. |
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It's the Mormon Church. They've already got more money than God. Quoted:
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They desire your money.... It's almost as though they need to pay their thousands of employees. You mean ancestry.com, the company that isnt owned by the church? That one? |