I only had an Ancestry subscription for a couple of months, after a free weekend sucked me in, but I was on the World version at the time I think, since I needed access to the States. I started hitting too many walls to make it worth the money to keep the subscription going. There's three mysteries that have yet to be solved and when they offer free weekends for an area of interest (we just had access to the UK for Victoria Day, for example), I take another look to see if anything's come up. But nothing yet. Once the next census is available, I think I'll be able to figure out at least two of the gaps, but that won't be for a while yet. The Canadian census only goes up to 1921, and the policy is to wait 92 years after it was taken before it's publicly available. 2023 is probably when I'll be able to find out what I'd like to know.
I want to know how my Great-Grandmother got from Scotland to Canada, since she just pops up on a census with no travel records of her, despite the entire rest of the family appearing. And there's a child who's one or two on the 1921 census that no one in my family heard of before, but I can't trace her without access to the 1931 census. And one of my grandmother's siblings was a cousin adopted after her parents died, I can't find out who the cousin's father was, what happened to her brother, or any information about how the parents died. I'm hoping the 1931 census will allow me to find the family before the parents were killed.
The other benefit of a subscription is that you can look at other people's trees, so there's that incentive. And I hate that even if you saved records while you were subscribed, you can't look at them once you're not anymore.
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I want to know how my Great-Grandmother got from Scotland to Canada, since she just pops up on a census with no travel records of her, despite the entire rest of the family appearing. And there's a child who's one or two on the 1921 census that no one in my family heard of before, but I can't trace her without access to the 1931 census. And one of my grandmother's siblings was a cousin adopted after her parents died, I can't find out who the cousin's father was, what happened to her brother, or any information about how the parents died. I'm hoping the 1931 census will allow me to find the family before the parents were killed.
The other benefit of a subscription is that you can look at other people's trees, so there's that incentive. And I hate that even if you saved records while you were subscribed, you can't look at them once you're not anymore.