@SilverFox
I don't mean to sound hard on Ancestry as a whole, the census and War Veteran information is very important. But as you say much of the local information that is also important is not in their DB collection. And this is one of the reasons Ancestry is more geared to the Beginner.
So when you say: "So, it is not the complete answer to everything a person needs to have; but is a good place to start." I agree and this is what I think of as a "beginner" since most people STOP after finding a person in the census, or copy someones work.
However, my comments for FTM and Ancestry were not really about data, but about the way they are less sophisticated regarding genealogy research standards and data capture and recording. Some times they facilitate bad habits that would not be acceptable in a scientific environment.
It is this concept that is core to the actual question that was first asked, "What facts do you feel comfortable merging from a PMT?"
I don't mean to sound hard on Ancestry as a whole, the census and War Veteran information is very important. But as you say much of the local information that is also important is not in their DB collection. And this is one of the reasons Ancestry is more geared to the Beginner.
So when you say: "So, it is not the complete answer to everything a person needs to have; but is a good place to start." I agree and this is what I think of as a "beginner" since most people STOP after finding a person in the census, or copy someones work.
However, my comments for FTM and Ancestry were not really about data, but about the way they are less sophisticated regarding genealogy research standards and data capture and recording. Some times they facilitate bad habits that would not be acceptable in a scientific environment.
It is this concept that is core to the actual question that was first asked, "What facts do you feel comfortable merging from a PMT?"