From: peter@parksidewood.nospam   
      
   On Fri, 8 Dec 2023 10:03:04 -0000 (UTC), "Geoff"   
    wrote:   
      
   >Is it me or is Ancestry.com becoming more and more a gimmiky commercial   
   >enterprise rather that a serious research site?   
      
   It's never been a 'serious research site.' You can tell that because   
   it assumes that every user is researching their own family.   
   And you can tell that its focus is the US market by the way that it   
   incorporates US place names in the database of UK placenames, despite   
   knowing that UK users are not in the US.   
   Having said that, I have got used to its search quirks over the years   
   and can get more out of it now than used to be the case.   
   I don't like the way that FMP works although I do make use of it   
   occasionally, for things not on Ancestry.   
      
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