Ancestry/Genealogy

Ancestry is also Mormon -- that explains how things got into their hands.

I remember about 38 years ago when I first started research, going to the library and sitting for hours in front of a microfilm reader, reading every line of a census return. There were some books with indexes, but I found a lot more by just reading a county. I found siblings and other relatives living in the same county. The problem with the early indexes is the same problem now: the indexer mis-reading an entry, making it impossible to find by index. Now everything is on line and behind corporate walls. It is possible to use Ancestry at the library for no fee, but the library restricts users to one hour. Unless you are very specific in your search, one hour isn't much.