May 15th, 2009

Is it worth it?

Yesterday, I signed up for my 14-day free trial of Ancestry. This would be unremarkable were it not for the fact that for years I’ve baulked at joining it.

At first, in total ignorance, I thought it was simply a fancier side to the Mormon archives in Utah – what I now know to call IGI.  Jargon really is invidious, isn’t it? Try as you might, on whatever topic, you can’t avoid it forever.  And genealogy is no different. Best to go with the flow then – saddle up my BMDs and go on over to the IGI for a long cool drink of OPRs…

Then I thought it was only for those in the US – the British records seemed woefully under-represented.  And as I, at least as far as I know, have zero connections over the pond, there seemed no point to looking at American records. You’ll notice a certain British insularity creeping in here, leading to a blind eye being turned to the fact that ahem Ancestry also holds (more…)