What genealogy sites have you found that use bait and switch?

genealogy sites have run across “bait , switch”, besides ancestry.com?

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there 3 marketing models commercial web sites. first free, advertising. google , facebook both free, both supported advertising, , both successful.

second subscription. 2 – 3 offers week sneak through spam filter offering me pornography $14.95 month, spring mind.

third “bait , switch”. classmates.com first found, 10 years ago. advertised “we have 10,000,000 entries. 1 might long-lost best friend. free registration.” dutifully registered, name, e-mail address, state, city, school , graduation year. showed me names of 40 – 50 old classmates, told me couldn’t write unless subscribed. “we have 10,000,001 entries …”. registration free, right; useless. mylife same; free registration, can’t write unless subscribe. ancestry gives data free – query boards full of nuggets, instance – not bad, although of give free powerful lure @ least try 14-day trial.

questions see here constantly, “free” in caps , repeated several times, suspect there genealogy sites let register free, spring subscription on you, after have found interested in. suspect newcomers our sport have tried first, increasing frustration.

newspaperarchive.com “bait , switch”, recall. have run across others? i’m old , cynical enough don’t believe advertising. spend 90% of “hunting” time ancestry subscription, find-a-grave, mormons, , gen web. result, haven’t tried lot of other sites.

what genealogy sites have run across “bait , switch”, besides ancestry.com? details: there 3 marketing models commercial web sites. first free, advertising. google , facebook both free, both supported advertising, , both successful. second is...

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