Stuff happens.
Ancestry.com is a good "trust but verify" site but certainly not
a complete tool or resource.
I have my trees on
ancestry.com but I do not update them online. When the time comes for
updating I delete what is there and reload everything from my desktop database which
happens to be Rootsmagic.
Regarding the counties work being duplicated, it depends on how much the county
coordinator has done. Personally, they don't have near what I provide on all my sites
and what is on archives.
I've been using Rootsmagic from about the time of Moses (actually I think it was early
nineties or late eighties). Originally it was Family Origins which was sold a few times
and ended up with somebody who didn't update and just let it sit. Then the programmers
that wrote FO, started up Rootsmagic. It depends on what people want out of software and
databases but for me Rootsmagic is terrific and inexpensive.
Rootsmagic blog indicates many people ask if they could have a working relationship with
ancestry.com like Family Tree. They are very willing to make it happen and have told
ancestry.com that. If this would be useful to researchers they suggest for the researchers
to let
ancestry.com know.
Sincerely,
Mike Peterson
On 1/28/2016 8:19:54 AM, Char Larson via <mngen(a)rootsweb.com> wrote:
Ancestry is retiring Family Tree Maker as of March 7, 2016. The software program was a
great tool in research and to sync family trees to Ancestry. I have been a long time user
of Family Tree Maker and a paying member of Ancestry. Ancestry now has millions of free
family histories on THEIR servers along with all the information that we, as County
Coordinators, put on our page and have spent years of researching and updating.
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