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Subscription Services
American Civil War Database Ancestry.com Everton Publishers Genealogy.com MyTrees.com For reviews of more subscription Web sites, see the August 2002 issue of Family Tree Mgazine.
www.civilwardata.com
For an annual fee of $25, you can search 2.5 million-plus Civil War records. This comprehensive database encompasses several smaller databases, such as service records, pension indexes and rosters. If you find your Civil War ancestor, the data on this site will give you a detailed view of his service—the dynamic links you'll find here give it an edge over the Ancestry database that contains the same records. (Read our review of this site from the October 2001 Family Tree Magazine.)
www.ancestry.com
Ancestry offers fee-based access to 705 million names in more than 3,000 databases, as well as 10 million census images. Subscribers can select from several different plans, which start at $24.95 a quarter and go up to $149.80 for yearly access to everything on the site. Databases include the Civil War Research Database (see above), Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Books and the Periodical Source Index (PERSI).
www.everton.com
This longtime publisher of Everton's Genealogical Helper (now Everton's Family History Magazine) has revamped its Web site and added a Family History Network. A $49.95 annual membership entitles you to access the all-new Bureau of Missing Ancestors databases and the Genealogy Learning Center, which contains thousands of articles.
www.genealogy.com
You have four subscriptions to choose from here: World Family Tree lets you search more than 130 million names in 180,000 family trees for $9.99 a month or $49.99 a year. Genealogy Library contains wills, biographies and land, church and military records from 3,200 digitized genealogy books, plus scanned pages from the 1850 census; new data comes from Genealogy.com's Family-Archive CD-ROMs. You can search the library for free before deciding if the results are worth the $49.99 annual or $9.99 monthly fee. The International and Passenger Records subscription also gives you access to data from dozens of FamilyArchive CDs for the price of just a few discs—$79.99 annually or $14.99 monthly. And the 1900 Census collection has an index and images of that year's full US federal census; it's also $79.99 a year or $14.99 a month. The site's free-to-use Learning Center features the Genealogy SiteFinder, with 72,000 links, and a helpful Genealogy How-To Guide.
www.mytrees.com
Search 1 billion-plus names in "the world's largest pedigree-linked database" for $15 a month or $100 a year. Or get a month's free access once you've uploaded GEDCOMs with at least 15 families and 60 individuals. You can also use MyTrees PLUS to search for every name in your database at the same time. There's a nifty option to try the service for 10 days for $5.
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