Comments on: Winner chosen for the Ancestry.com Ultimate Family History Journey™ Sweepstakes

By: Betty Stringfellow

Betty Stringfellow — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:26:03 +0000

Carolyn, Congrats to you. Hope you are able to find out more about your family. I would be happy with one of the other prizes. I was lucky enough this summer to be able to visit Scotland and the Isle of Skye where my fathers family came from in the mid 1700′s to North Carolina. Gave the lady at “MacDonald” center a copy of all the info I have on the family so maybe I will be able to find out more. I can only go by what I have been able to beg and plead from others and once and a while go on their computer as I can only afford the free Ancestry.com as of now. I am so oooooooooo happy for you. Betty

By: Dawn Campbell

Dawn Campbell — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 02:37:44 +0000

I didn’t know about the contest. But if I would have won I would like to have discovered more about my gr-gr-gr-great-grandfather who immigrated from Germany. Thats one of my stand still points he was born in the 1830′s in Germany, my other brick walls end in Maryland in the late 1700′s, The last names of WARD and LILLEY have been very frustrating to the say the least. Congrats to the winner.

By: Pen

Pen — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:32:35 +0000

By: Leeann Gatten

Leeann Gatten — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:12:54 +0000

Congrats Carolyn! Enjoy and happy hunting.

I as well entered just about everyday but that was part of the fun. The TV show has given real teeth to my passion, now when I say genealogy is my hobby people don’t look at me as thou I just spoke in Latin.

I am planning a trip back to Marylans where my family came from in 1860 via horse and wagon. I was going to use the money to try and pay for the trip and collect my g-g-g-grandfathers medal of honor and bring it back to Ohio where he is buried.

By: Colleen

Colleen — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:13:51 +0000

Congratus Carolyn…but I really wanted to win this. I entered every day and didn’t even win a subscription. And yes, I am a sore loser : )

By: AnnetteJ

AnnetteJ — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:48:44 +0000

I know that the selection is random, but I am not sure exactly how it is done. When all you enter is your e-mail address on a clickable form, no one knows if you are brand new or an old timer. And, yes, I can understand your disappointment, as I confess that it was the first thing that flashed through my mind as well!

By: Larry Van Wormer

Larry Van Wormer — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:47:27 +0000

While I certainly see nothing unfair about a new member getting the prize (that’s just the way things go…), I do think it’s unfair of Ancestry to limit the contest to U.S. members only. All paying members should have an equal chance.

By: Andy Hatchett

Andy Hatchett — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 03:02:09 +0000

Life often isn’t.

By: Diana Kading

Diana Kading — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:00:48 +0000

I’m fairly disappointed for all the people who have dedicated years and years to genealogy, hours to volunteering, miles and miles of traveling to see such a prize given to someone who hasn’t been looking at genealogy for even year…. just doesn’t seem fair..

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:33:35 +0000

Congratulations Carolyn, I hope you find the answers you are looking for and the experience is really enjoyable.

If I had won, I would have like to have gone to Ireland too and England.
In East Galway I would search manor records for some evidence that my paternal Irish Catholic family [surname Rowan]lived in a townland there, most likely labouring on the farms of a landlord before 1850. I have an oversea birth record that links them to Loughrea.
In South Yorkshire England I would have looked into my maternal line [surname Grant] who I have traced back to Aston 1698 but don’t have a lead before this as to where to look. I would have been looking to prove or disprove what my Grandfather’s cousin said that the family came from Scotland [Stirling]before Yorkshire.
After that a few brickwall missing baptisms and marriages in England to find, would have completed my perfect genealogy discovery trip.

Karen