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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Figtree3, post: 100599, member: 33&quot;]I don&#039;t care for Ancestry myself, but do use it and find that it has a lot of information. I don&#039;t like their search engine in general but am getting used to it. As a long-time librarian I&#039;m accustomed to a lot of online searching and theirs is not as easy as it could be, especially if you are looking for something specific.</p><p><br /></p><p>Have you used <a href="https://familysearch.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://familysearch.org/" rel="nofollow">https://familysearch.org/</a> ? It&#039;s the research website of the LDS church (Latter Day Saints, or Mormons). If you don&#039;t know about them, they have for many years gathered records from all over the world. Visiting their Family History Library in Salt Lake City is a wonderful experience.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, their online site has also become a go-to location. They are currently doing a <i>large </i>amount of digitization of records that they have had on microfilm for many years. Of course, they do not have everything, either. And currently they are not charging for the use of their records. I don&#039;t know whether they plan to charge in the future or not.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you use their site, create a personal account first. That will allow you to save links to records that you find, and you can go back to them later and won&#039;t lose them. Then when you search there are several ways, available under the Search menu at the top of the page. If you use the Records search that is a direct way to search many records that they have digitized. If you search their Catalog you will find a mixture of print, microfilmed, and digitized items. You have to look at the individual entries to figure out which are which. However, they have now digitized pretty much all of the printed family history books (compiled genealogies) that were in their collections. Through the Catalog search you will find links to those in individual records. They also have a way to search Genealogies, which are submitted by members, I think (haven&#039;t used that one much). And they have ways to search Books, which I have not tried yet but will.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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