By
Fifer1.
November 07, 2009 at 01:04AM (PST)
Ancestry has loads of great features but I find it's search facility really clunky. Maybe it's just me but irrelevant results seem to overwhelm the hidden gems. My main interest is in Scotland so I can't view original census images but the idiosyncratic transcriotions allow me to narrow results on Scolandspeople (where the census search options are pretty poor, a real downside on that site). It's just a pity the quality of some of their digitisations e,g, newspapers is so poor - sometimes you can't read whole editions. Wish they had invested in some OCR versions of the papers so that you can really search rather than slowly browsing editions.