As time goes on I¡¯ve come to the opinion that putting all your eggs in any kind of computery basket is a really bad idea. This in spite of (or maybe because of) working in IT for decades.
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Online subscription systems are a money-makers dream - build, run, and watch the money pour in. Please don¡¯t give me some BS about development and running costs, the profits far outweigh those.
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Ancestry (or the other sites for that matter) don¡¯t give a fig about gung-ho ¡®researchers¡¯ grabbing whatever ¡®suggestions¡¯ are thrown at them (oh, the joys of the database!) and assembling them into some kind of mish-mash. And when that interpretation is online it becomes gospel and propogates. I find that very disheartening when compared to the work done by more manual means in the past. It¡¯s kind of ruined it for me.
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I would try not to get locked into online systems. Buy a family tree program (hurrah, something you actually own!) - or get a free one - that you can use on your local machine that can export GEDCOMs. You can then change software if you like, and future generations will at least be able to access the bones of your research.
