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Genealogy.com . . . Another Place to Research Your Family History
By Kathy Jones-Kristof | February 8, 2008
One of my favorite places to do family history research is Ancestry.com, an online subscription database that I discussed in my post on Feb 4, 2008. Genealogy.com is another popular subscription database, which I’ve also used. There are reasons I recommend it and reasons I’m no longer a member.
Genealogy.com was the first database I subscribed to and my favorite thing about it was the history books they had online, which Ancestry didn’t have at the time. They also have a nice variety of subscription offerings that gave me access to the historical information I wanted without having to pay for sections I didn’t need.
The reason I cancelled my subscription was because Genealogy.com returns all the hits for a search in one lump—not in categories as Ancestry.com does. As a result I had to wade through a lot of things I wasn’t interested in to get to the information I wanted. Example: I subscribed to the historical data collection, not the census data. Yet whenever I did a search, the results included the 1850 census index. This forced me to wade through a lot of census index hits that I didn’t want. A search for the surnames of Jones, Smith and Brown made my work impossible. I simply couldn’t spend the time required to sort through all the extraneous data to find the vital information I was paying for, so I cancelled my subscription.
Anyone with more distinctively named ancestors will find Genealogy.com filled with useful data. Go to their website to see what they offer. If you subscribe to them, here’s something you should try. Do a search on just your ancestor’s last name. This will give you a list of all the first names for that surname and lets you see all the odd spellings of your ancestor’s first name in Genealogy.com’s files. Click on each one to see if there’s anything that you nearly missed just because someone didn’t know how to spell. This is another thing I did for facts about my ancestors. Until next time, keep searching!
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Topics: All Levels of Genealogists |
June 10th, 2008 at 11:09 am
[...] is still an online library of great value. (See my post of Feb 8, 2008.) But once you’ve obtained from them all the facts you can glean about your ancestors, your [...]
July 16th, 2008 at 2:10 am
me too agree with you…
Nice - Very Informative Post!
Genealogy.com is a very informative site for Family Tree Research