Oh Karen, you will, you will!!!! Here's how it works... your first couple of years of WSing you're filling up every inch of dirt at you disposal in your yard with those babies. Then at the end of the second or third summer, you look around and say "whoaaaaa...there's a LOT of ripe seed out here!!!!" You harvest more than you can ever use in a lifetime EACH season and suddenly your in these group round robin swaps with hundreds of seed packages flying through the US mail. It's REALLY easy to go through a box of 500 little zippys.... The postman is my Santa, Nancy

In the States you can sign up at BB&B in stores or on line for coupons and special sales info. The coupons, which arrive regularly by mail and email, are good for 20% off any single item (with a few exceptions, which sometimes the store will ignore. I bought my Breville oven there, using a coupon, although Breville items were listed as excluded on the coupon.) When I am interested in something, such as the dehydrators, I check both BB&B and Amazon on line. Then I visit a BB&B. BB&B stores will order an item that is listed in the on-line inventory if they do not have it in stock. I pay at the store, using a coupon, and the item will be shipped directly to me from some central warehouse. As I said, they will usually forego shipping charges. (I have to negotiate this, and a manager has to clear it.) This makes them competitive with Amazon Prime, and the BB&B customer service and return policy is absolutely super. Hope this is clear. Don't know if Canada BB&Bs offer coupons. (We have driven through Alberta, but in the southern part--as far north as Edmonton, where a good friend used to live. I loved the towns and people. But snow 8 months of the year? BRRRRR.)

maire, I still keep my tree at ancestry but I also have the software. I use Macavo for the search. Whatever comes up there I google using the title Macavo used. That works almost every time. Most of their stuff is out of copyright books and old newspapers. Google has a bazillion old history books and newspapers. Sometimes you have to get real creative with search terms. familysearch sometimes is a gold mine. Sometimes not. I subscribed to findmypast when they ran a $49 special a month or so ago. It hasn't proven as helpful as I had hoped. I read a lot of blogs and those people seem to know where to look for stuff so I follow any link they talk about. Individual states sometimes have good historical societies and/or the state itself sometimes has good genealogy information. Ethnic sites might have what you need. My ggrandmother who died in the hospital at Castle Garden was in the German Genealogy Group web site http://www.germangenealogygroup.com/records-search/deaths.php It takes a lot of practice, trial and error and just plain luck to find stuff, especially for free. I did send for the death certificate and paid for that but often the information is indexed on the web site. The death of my great grandmother in S.D. was indexed on their web site. I did send for it. Sometimes it's as little a a couple bucks and sometimes $25 for a mailed copy. If the index is good enough proof, don't buy the copy. But I do like to read the information on the original. Even originals have mistakes though. One place I don't think gets enough scrutiny is the original page of the census. Don't just read the index. Open the original page and read everything all the way across the page. Compare it with all the census you can find for that person. Be aware that the people in the census might have told the census taker anything. Some didn't think the government needed to know anything and answered accordingly. And sometimes the neighbors or whoever was at home answered the questions and might not have known where the people had been born so keep that in mind. I've found people I wasn't even looking for by reading the page before and the page after, too. Some historical societies and GENweb states have a limited amount of census on their site. the ancestry message boards and any other message board might connect you with someone who can help. I have the same problem as you. Either there isn't anyone else out there looking for our ancestors or they aren't looking the same places I'm looking. Finding them is a bit like pulling hen's teeth. In the long run, I've found better "cousins" by looking at the trees that my documents have been linked to. At least that way I know they are in my family. Or MIGHT be in my family. I found one a couple of days ago that uses all my ancestors for their person but that person never was in that family. They've assigned her to the wrong family. I don't know how much work they did, apparently not enough or they would have discovered there was no link. But otherwise, I have connected with cousins by following my own documents to other trees.

We have had prime for years, even before they offered streaming. Somehow I received my first year free and there has been no looking back. What I like the most is not having to drive around looking for whatever it is I am trying to buy, it always seems to be a challenge. That said I do review prices between other stores/websites such as Target, and Home Depot, for example Amazon does not even come close to meeting the price I pay for bird seed through Home Depot. Even with shopping other websites and locally for many things, Amazon is a huge timesaver and worth the money for me.