What is the best genealogy service?
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twistdstofgrace
ANSWERS: 2
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IMO, http://www.ancestry.com
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Kinda depends on what time period and states we're talking about, but, in general and restricting myself to online sources as I suspect that's what you're after: http://ancestry.com is hideous in some ways, but they have a truly huge collection of records. There's really no substitute. I wish there were... but there's not. http://www.heritagequestonline.com is nice if your library has a subscription that allows you to log in from home. http://www.newenglandancestors.org is good if your family has New England roots. http://www.genealogybank.com is good for researching old newspapers, which is something ancestry.com only does a very poor job of. http://www.worldvitalrecords.com is of some use but probably only once you've exhausted ancestry.com. http://labs.familysearch.org and http://www.familysearch.org are both free and worth checking out. http://books.google.com can be weirdly helpful. I've found some strange and interesting things there and its free so it doesn't hurt to try. many of the online state archives have gotten halfway decent. others are terrible and useless.
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