From: Keith_Nuttle@sbcglobal.net   
      
   On 4/21/2019 3:54 AM, MB wrote:   
   > On 21/04/2019 07:12, Peter wrote:   
   >> Just starting into genealogy.  And very confusing it is too.   
   >> Thank you for the information.   
   >> Petefj   
   >   
   > Find someone with an interest in the subject and an Ancestry or FMP   
   > account, possibly in the local FHS.   
   >   
   > It can be surprising how much you can find sometimes in quite a short time.   
   >   
   I am in the US.  Our library are mostly free, but I am 700 miles of   
   where my ancestors lived.  However using the resources on the internet I   
   have been able to lean a lot about my families for about 7 generations   
   from the online document images.   
      
   While some people complain about the cost of Ancestry, the subscription   
   works out to about $20 US/week.  That does not go very far toward the   
   cost of the gasoline to get to the archives that contain the information   
   you need.   We are also very lucky in the US to have the extensive   
   online records that the Mormon's maintain which is free to all.   
      
   Many of our local Genealogy and History Societies also have very good   
   collections of document images.  Usually membership to these societies   
   for full access to their records is nominal.   
      
   Fortunately/Unfortunately most of us in the US are only able to push our   
   families back into the early 1700's so we do not have the rarer   
   documents that are available in Europe.   I can only imagine living in   
   an area where the histories go back a thousand years or more.   
      
      
      
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