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Some people have bemoaned the fact that there are so many commercial genealogy web sites now available and that they cost money.
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I can download images from it and save them digitally - I don't have to abstract or transcribe it by hand to obtain a copy.
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The biggest value, though, is the time (and money) it saves me - I can search databases and documents that I would otherwise have to travel a distance to find (incurring transportation and lodging costs), or find and copy at a local repository (copy costs, film rentals), or hire a professional genealogist to find ( lookups or copies from a distant repository). I can use it any time of day, at home on my desktop, at others homes or on vacation on my laptop or another computer, or on my smart phone and tablet device. I don't know about you, but my Ancestry subscription is probably the wisest and smartest genealogy investment I've made in the last ten years. And that they provide access to Rootsweb (databases, mailing lists, message boards, freepages, society web pages, etc) for free.
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That is a pretty good deal IF you will use it on a regular basis.Ĭonsider also that access to many of Ancestry's databases is available at libraries in the US in the form of Ancestry Library Edition. When you consider this on a daily basis, it is $0.43 a day for the US and $0.82 for the World. They offer an annual US Deluxe subscription (all of the US-based collections) for $155.40 a year, and an annual World Deluxe subscription for $299.40 (all collections). To my mind, a commercial genealogy company like ( which has Rootsweb, Ancestry, MyFamily, , FamilyTreeMaker, Fold3, and other sites under its umbrella) is in a competitive business of providing information to customers (you and me). But sometimes the rant is based on the notion that "someone wants to rip me off," or "they only want to make a big profit." I understand that many people are on limited incomes, and have to make priorities in their spending - genealogy may not be a necessary cost when a person is financially squeezed. Once in awhile, a person in my genealogy society meetings goes off on the subscription genealogy websites, especially. I want to address the "you and me" part of it.Įvery so often, someone posts a rant on one of my mailing lists decrying the cost of joining a genealogy society, the cost of an Ancestry (or other commercial site) subscription, or the use of user-contributed databases by a commercial web site.
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Someone pays - the web site owner, the advertisers, or you and me.
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If you're getting something for free, then someone else is paying for it.ĭearMYRTLE and Jasia posted back in 2007 about the "hidden" costs of all of the free genealogy data we have available to us - the web sites, genealogy societies, databases, search engines etc. It takes money for the world to go around. We've all heard that throughout our lives - as children, as students, as adults, as workers, as players, as genealogists. There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch (TANSTAAFL). I wrote something on this topic back in 2007 - see TANSTAAFL. I'm providing my own comments a day after.
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In Thomas MacEntee's Genea-Opportunities series this week on Geneabloggers, he posted Genealogy - Whja t Do You Mean It isn't Free? A 2012 Update.