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Originally Posted by Hollytree
Didn't realize Ancestry was becoming such a monopoly. Too bad because their search engines cause huge numbers of bad hits even when you delimit parameters (like birth & death dates) which never seem to actually "take" in the end results.
On another note, the numbers of incorrect trees has skyrocketed with people simply copying bad information and never checking primary sources.
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Ancestry's purpose (much as they'd like it to be) is to do your research for you. The researcher still has to evaluate the information a search returns.
But yes, there are too many bad researchers out there that mistakenly think they're doing genealogy by simply copying and pasting any and everything that they find, whether it's correct or not.
It doesn't make Ancestry a bad site. It's the big, bad corporate giant. But as a long (long, long) time genealogist. It's indispensable, and worth every penny to me.
Currently, Ancestry is advertising "companion" subscriptions to Footnote for half price.
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