When I put my name in I wasn’t expecting to find anything, but there I am – my birth date and where I live. Can you say identity theft? OK … so it’s not as bad as my husband who was born in MN and has his birth date plus who his parents are. Hopefully no one is out there who wants to be me. I’m not going to lose sleep over this.
Ancestry is my choice for finding info. The drawback is that I can’t use it at home. The downloadable charts are easy to use and will be helpful in doing research. One thing you need to remind people is that it’s not as easy as it looks on all the Ancestry commercials on TV. As from my experience the information I was looking for was not there. I'll keep on searching.....For my discovery experience I located a picture of the South Dakota Ship from 1903.
Heritage Quest can be used from home but I don’t like the layout when I’m searching for census material.While playing around I used the Family Tree. I had never used that before. Odd how the people you are looking for are never found but the ones you know about are there. That’s the way life is. I guess I’ll keep on searching.
I have used the Map collection before. It was fun looking at maps of my hometown. There again the place I wanted to be listed wasn’t there. Rats!
On a side note it’s great that we learned how to upload to Google Docs in the last Library Challenge. I now keep all info there so I can have access to it from anywhere.
Hi, ILL, I'm with you on the genealogy deal, but people who are into it are really into it! Glad you poked around and made some discoveries. Ancestry is my choice, too, and that it's not available from home (unless people have personal subscriptions) might be a means to draw more people into your library. You are so right that it is NOT as easy as on the commercials! Thanks for your comments.
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