If your subscription to a genealogy website or database is set to “auto-renew,” put the date on your calendar. And mark a week before the date of the expiration. That’s the date on which you should make a decision to keep your subscription or cancel it. That gives you plenty of time to contact the service and cancel if necessary. And…if you are considering a short-term subscription to one of the database services, here are some suggestions. But always know when the subscription is set to automatically renew.
We’ve made a list of some assumptions that genealogists make. Here are a few. We will add your suggestions to a longer list which we’ll post later. The county history was right. That my grandparents actually got married. That my grandma was my grandpa’s first wife. That my relative was an immigrant. That my relative was born in the United States. That the entire death certificate was right. That grandma had a tombstone. That my grandparents were buried next to each other. That no one in my family got divorced. That the old genealogy was right–I just haven’t found the proof yet. That my family was never in court. That my family never appeared in the newspaper. Add your own thoughts in the comments. Thanks!
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