This is not entirely about Ancestry.com vs other memberships but rather about the Ancestry DNA project vs other DNA testing sources. I purchased a complete Y-DNA and mtDNA test kit and returned it to the Ancestry DNA project which in due time…
I was interested in an article I found on Ancestry.com by Tom Des Jean, a National Park Service Archeologist, on "A History of Mining for Saltpeter in the Big South Fork" which quotes my great aunt Frona Thompson: "Mrs. THOMPSON…
Much of the more useful information I have found has been from looking directly at the census sheets on Ancestry. As others have mentioned you can frequently find relatives you recognize even though the census taker had changed their name and the…
I am not sure what you need but using my current tree information (which may or may not be accurate as we go backwards) my maternal grandmother was Nancy Jane Smith b. 23 Aug 1882, d. 8 May 1925. Her mother was Mary Stephens b. 9 Jun 1857, d. 10 Jun…
It sounds like most of us have "problems" with Ancestry.com. One would think they would have someone lurking on this and similar sites trying to get ideas to improve the service. I agree with several that the search system is impaired. I…
I am looking for information in both east and west: Smiths in Scott County, Tennessee and Cushmans in Cheatham and Montgomery County. Both families were dirt poor and information dries up in the mid-1800s.