| I like Ancestry.Com for its records and both for their message boards. Also I like the Public Member Tree program that Ancestry.Com now has to set up your family tree. I have some of my family in Ancestry World Tree.
But let me give you a warning I am always giving. Information in family trees on ANY
website, free or paid, must be view as clues not as absolute fact. The trees are subscriber submitted and mostly not documented or poorly documented. Even when you see the same info repeatedly by many different subscriber that is no guarantee at all it is correct. A lot of people copy without verifying.
It galls me that if you have Family Tree Maker and a subscription to Genealogy.Com, they actually encourage you to merge other people's trees into yours. Then you can upload your merged tree to various websites. People who do this are just collecting names and don't have quality research.
The Public Member Trees on Ancestry.Com, is very easy to bring forth records. It will frequently do a search for you on an individual. It can be very helpful. Sometimes you have to be careful. But particularly be careful if what they are pulling up is information from someone else's tree in One World Tree. Don't take it as fact. Actually when they set up One World Tree they took the information various subscribers had put in Ancestry World Tree and brought it forward to One World Tree. Frequently they have what looks like one person with different information on that person. However, I have seen twice where they combined 2 people into 1. You should always verify other subscriber's information with as much documentation as possible. This is where your cost can come in but at least you will know you have a valid family tree.  |