I agree with everything the others have said. I have been an Ancestry.com subscriber for several years now, having begun with just the USA site. A few years ago I upgraded to World, just to get data about Canadian ancestors. Following the Green Leaf Hints is acceptable as long as you stick with the primary sources. ONLY use other Family Trees, Millenium, etc as leads because they can contain a lot of mis-information due to incorrect linking. They do not provide data on living persons. So you really have to have info on grandparents, and work backwards. Primary Sources include, birth, baptism, marriage, death, burial records. But be sure to read the actual record, not just the printed version. The original can contain more data not transcribed. Good Alternatives are church records. Less accurate are census records, because they are only as good as the knowledge of the reporting person and the understanding of the census taker. (Sometimes in older records there may be a language or ethnicity barrier as it effects pronunciation & spelling.) Sometimes data on gravestones can be wrong as numbers can be transposed & names misspelled. The same with obituaries. Though all are certainly good leads. A more recent addition are Town/City Directories which can provide occupation, names of employed person & spouse, employer & address, residence address. The benefit being they are published yearly. Many even provide "deceased" info. Helps to fill in gaps between censuses. It is because of this easy, automatic link to primary records that I continue my subscription of $75.00 every 6 months. Happy Hunting...