I have finally begun to publish the family tree on Ancestry.com, but am doing it the hard way ie one person at a time, rather than by importing a gedcom file. This enables me to check the facts as I go and also to compile a list of questions still to be answered. At my current rate of work I estimate it will take me 5 years to complete – perhaps I’d better speed things up a bit!
The advantage of having the tree on Ancestry.com is that the program immediately provides links to other people researching the same people, access to appropriate historical links and various hints. The disadvantage in all this is that it can be very confusing and divert one from the current matter in hand – I must not get distracted!!
Family matters. 
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October 30, 2011 at 9:06 pm
Gareth
i’ve noticed Ancestry.com advertise on TV. Is it the pre-eminent genealogy website?
November 1, 2011 at 12:40 am
M&D
That’s weird – I thought I answered this already. In answer to your question, yes, it probably is – the site has grown tremendously in the last few years, both in member numbers and data bases. I find it very useful, though I do use other sites as well . Its main disadvantage is its search engine – you ask for a specific person, event, date and it gives you hundreds of possibilities and not necessarily in “most likely first” order.