Doing what I can with the United States
I'm finding there are so many stumbling blocks to searching for records outside of the U.S., not the least of which is the language barrier. I'm having some challenges finding copies of documents from Europe (I subscribe to the World version of Ancestry.com, so I get documents from outside of the U.S.) but I find that either they don't have a copy of the original document uploaded to their site, or it's in German or French or whatever and I can't read it anyway. In addition, they don't always have enough of the information from the document translated and categorized for it to be much help. I'll see things that say "1850-1900, German births, deaths, marriages" and my ancestor's name, but they haven't transcribed enough of the information for me to determine, beyond the shadow of a doubt that this is really my ancestor. I've been basically trusting Ancestry blindly, but now I want to link everything together with actual documents in