I'm sick to death of waiting on ancestry to add any new information on US records of any type PRIOR to 1776. Many of us have family lines that were here 150+ years before the US became a country.

Ancestry is wasting my money. Very tempted to not re-up on the next go.

Perhaps it would be helpful for Ancestry to know exactly what type of pre-1776 U.S. records you are expecting to see?

Okay, for a start how about some court records, deeds, wills, probate, guardianship, militia returns, biographies, local histories, etc.

I agree with this...using Ancestry.com to search for ANY valuable genealogical data before the first US census (1790) is pointless. It just isn't there.

Unlike old B/M/D records, which can be generally bought by the genealogist from the respective State/County/City website or office...Deeds, Wills, and Probate records are VERY difficult to obtain personally. In some cases, you can get them from the LDS library, but most of the time you have to either Inter-Library-Loan them through your own state/local library (local ones might not even be equipped for microfilm reading), or you have to travel to the specific State Library itself to gain access to it all.

I will admit, though, that Wills and Probate records might be impossible for Ancestry.com to license, due to the sensitive nature of it all. Deeds might be possible, though.

Can anyone from Ancestry.com weigh in on this situation? I feel like there is noone with influence even checking these topics sometimes...

We will never see any answer from ancestry.com on this. It would be too much for them to admit they want to focus their full efforts on getting more customers in other countries, and thus the need for those all-important Latvian records, and untranslated French and German stuff being shoved down our throats.

They have no motivation to change anything if that motivation is not based on money in their pockets. Colonial American data is of no interest to them.

Not to mention that some of the "FACTS" they are supplying are nothing more than the cr*p that comes from the family histories entered at the LDS website. Pasting the following from the U.S. and International Marriage Records:

Source Information:

Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004. Original data: This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was derived from an array of materials including pedigree charts, family history articles, querie.

One of my family trees has an erroneous marriage that has been passed down from generation to generation and now Ancestry is supplying the SAME false information to people.

I know...that CD from LDS cost them $15.

That is incredibly unfortunate.

I know for a FACT that ALOT of stuff on the LDS family trees is outdated and old, and often quite wrong.

For example, my great great uncle and my great grandmother started their family's genealogical research in the 1940s-1960s. While it was a great start, there were some HUGE factual mistakes they made due to the difficulty in getting primary sources back then. My grandmother tirelessly researched and realized many crucial mistakes, and spent years trying to convince distant relatives that the "old" research was wrong. Even TODAY, some of those wrong pedigree charts are STILL on Ancestry.com, uploaded by the decendants of those people, without ANY proper documentation. The LDS trees suffer from stuff like this...and I cannot believe that Ancestry.com uses them as primary sources.

Well, I still hope someone from Ancestry.com will post here, but my hopes are dropping like a rock...*sigh*

Nobody from ancestry is going to post or care. They know what you said is true. They are in the business of selling information...not the quality of it. LDS is great for actual parish records and films and such, but all those pedigrees are highly suspect and usually wrong. They're good for nothing but hints.

Don't hold your breath for a response from ancestry. You and I are just 2 whining customers and like their terms of conditions state -- if you don't like something your only recourse is to cancel (without a refund of unused time, of course).