Re: Genforum being axed
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Re: Genforum being axed
Sylvia Jetton 7/22/14
Only the actual Ancestry.com site is by subscription that has the same Family Tree Maker/Broderbund cd's that genealogy.com required a subscription to access. All of Ancestry's RootsWeb forums, mailing lists, message boards and World Connect pages are free and they have always been much better than what genforum had, with many more actual surname and place name boards. And each has a expanded search engine so you can enter multiple parameters that genforum never had. I have used both GenForum and RootsWeb for over 20 years and by far RootsWeb has the larger audience if you are looking for a particular person and it has built-in controls that weed out spam which GenForum never had.