I used it myself for a while. I had tons of research already done for me by my great grandfather.
About seventy years ago, he had paid a small fortune to a lawyer in Canada to document our family's history. It goes back into the 1500's
I figured it'd be nice to share that info with other long lost relatives out there. So I joined ancestery.com with that intent. But apparently someobdy got there before me with the same collection of info.
I was a little bummed out that my plan to do a good deed had already been taken care of.
At least it saved me the hassle of entering it all myself - we're talking hundreds of marriages and god knows how many children from each of those marriages.
I did however make MANY contacts with people from my family that I didn't even really know existed.
It's one thing to see random names on paper - quite another to get an email from a distant relative in Canada saying hello.
For that reason alone I highly recommend joining - at least to see if you can connect with any living relatives. You don't need to stay subscribed forever.
And I'll tell you - genealogy in general is an area of the internet that can really make you appreciate the value of the technology.
From the comfort of my office chair, I am looking at a photograph some random photographer recently took of the very baptismal fount in the old run down cathedral where my great-great-great... ...great grandfather was baptized in France in the early 1500's.
Too cool.
This post was edited by JRSutton at 05:02:21 01/23/13.
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