Comments on: Rootsweb Gets A New Address http://ipentimento.com/rootsweb-address-change/ Our most treasured family heirlooms are our sweet family memories. --Unknown Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:29:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: webduck http://ipentimento.com/rootsweb-address-change/#comment-405 webduck Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:58:27 +0000 http://ipentimento.com/rootsweb-address-change/#comment-405 I agree Landschoof. I have a family surname that is Osgathorpe. The man it is traced back to fought in the American Rev. War and I have copies of his pay vouchers. I intend to add him to my Patriots in my DAR list, but it is a bear of a name to research. Mostly because it is also a locality name in England, where the man originated. When the family migrated through the generations from North Carolina to Kentucky and then to Tennessee, the name evolved to "Osgatharp". I agree Landschoof. I have a family surname that is Osgathorpe. The man it is traced back to fought in the American Rev. War and I have copies of his pay vouchers. I intend to add him to my Patriots in my DAR list, but it is a bear of a name to research. Mostly because it is also a locality name in England, where the man originated. When the family migrated through the generations from North Carolina to Kentucky and then to Tennessee, the name evolved to “Osgatharp”.

]]> By: Landschoof http://ipentimento.com/rootsweb-address-change/#comment-404 Landschoof Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:50:21 +0000 http://ipentimento.com/rootsweb-address-change/#comment-404 I guess the "big" services cannot provide information for all names. Especially people with very rare names have to do the research by themselves and build a network with others doing the same research. At least, that is what we are doing. I guess the “big” services cannot provide information for all names. Especially people with very rare names have to do the research by themselves and build a network with others doing the same research. At least, that is what we are doing.

]]> By: webduck http://ipentimento.com/rootsweb-address-change/#comment-403 webduck Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:34:10 +0000 http://ipentimento.com/rootsweb-address-change/#comment-403 Certain areas of Ancestry are just fine if you want to pay to get records like censuses, etc.. I have found that invaluable since I can't always get to a genealogy library and would probably go blind just looking at reel after reel of images. What I don't like about Ancestry is their World Family Tree because it is just family trees uploaded to Ancestry and many of them contain errors and completely wrong information. I feel the same way about the LDS site and their International Genealogical Index. Those are submitted records too, and not always reliable either. Certain areas of Ancestry are just fine if you want to pay to get records like censuses, etc.. I have found that invaluable since I can’t always get to a genealogy library and would probably go blind just looking at reel after reel of images.

What I don’t like about Ancestry is their World Family Tree because it is just family trees uploaded to Ancestry and many of them contain errors and completely wrong information.

I feel the same way about the LDS site and their International Genealogical Index. Those are submitted records too, and not always reliable either.

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