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<p>[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 100475, member: 59"]TOG - I posted on your first thread on this subject as a 5+ year member of Ancestry and asked a couple questions. But I see now that what you really want is to be free of Ancestry and to take your family research elsewhere - someplace that costs less and has more documents (as long as the documents as exactly the ones you're looking for.) Am I right?</p><p><br /></p><p>I will tell you that even a dedicated user of Ancestry cannot and will not rely solely on what they have. They are a huge repository of documentation of all sorts, but the reason they add new files constantly, is because they don't have "everything" and will probably never have "everything." No site will have everything that everyone needs.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have heard from others here that a site (I've never used) called Mocavo is cheaper. You'll have to check it out for yourself to see how it would work for you. In addition to Ancestry I <u>am</u> a member of familysearch.org, where I have found a few things in my own search that have been very helpful - but are not on Ancestry. I did not bother to set up a tree there but it's FREE, so you could try it without worrying about the cost.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope others will chime in.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 100475, member: 59"]TOG - I posted on your first thread on this subject as a 5+ year member of Ancestry and asked a couple questions. But I see now that what you really want is to be free of Ancestry and to take your family research elsewhere - someplace that costs less and has more documents (as long as the documents as exactly the ones you're looking for.) Am I right? I will tell you that even a dedicated user of Ancestry cannot and will not rely solely on what they have. They are a huge repository of documentation of all sorts, but the reason they add new files constantly, is because they don't have "everything" and will probably never have "everything." No site will have everything that everyone needs. I have heard from others here that a site (I've never used) called Mocavo is cheaper. You'll have to check it out for yourself to see how it would work for you. In addition to Ancestry I [U]am[/U] a member of familysearch.org, where I have found a few things in my own search that have been very helpful - but are not on Ancestry. I did not bother to set up a tree there but it's FREE, so you could try it without worrying about the cost. I hope others will chime in.[/QUOTE]
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