Ancestry/Genealogy

They will and always do have a "sale" after you've been off of it for a few months. They then offer you a membership for a lot less, like $100.00 for the year v. $155.00 for the year.

I'm going to wait on that.

If they don't offer me such a thing, well, I'll just move along to other things.

Their largely B.S. "trees" from where are doing me not much good at all.

I know who I am looking for and actually the best *tip* I ever found was of my own doing and had nothing at all to do with ancestry.com.

Seems the old cousin I found has written an entire book about my mother's family and she did the research in the 1970s long before they had ancestry.com or the internet.

She has a pile of info. and pictures too. I found her on my own and ancestry.com had little role in this. I found out when her mother (my aunt) died the year after my own mother did at the age of 94 years. I obtained a copy of my aunt's death cert. and there was a name/address on it and I sent that name/address a Xmas card and said, "You don't know who I am and I don't know who you are but ...".

I received a telephone call on Xmas eve. 2008 from her saying "Bingo! Hello ... it is me, your cousin in Indiana!". Wow, what a shock that was!