By Debra DuPree Williams @DDuPreeWilliams
I’ve spent the past twenty years or so doing family searches. My search began in libraries, courthouses, and cemeteries. When Ancestry came along, I joined and began using their compilation of records for many of my searches. It wasn’t the cheapest way, but it was definitely the easiest.
Ancestry had online records such as census, wills, deeds—most of the things one would expect to find in doing genealogical research. Today, ancestry is much more comprehensive, offering not only these records but access to European records, passenger lists, and many newspapers from all over the world.
