Has anyone tried the free trial by ancestry.com to find ancestors who served in the military? If so, what were?

Hi, I pretty much have all the information on my ancestors who were in the military from the Revolutionary War up to Vietnam and I have a paid subscription to Ancestry.com and Footnote, which is better because they have more NARA records than Ancestry, so, I have not tried the free trial but it is my understanding that it goes through midnight, Sunday 14 Nov 2010. If you are looking for someone particular and can't find them, email me through my profile and I will give it a look for you.

It depends on what info you have. If you have a common name like John Smith or John Walters, you are going to be doing a lot of weeding through the vast number of hits you will receive.....5,000+ hits. Don't forget, there have been many wars, many countries, and lots of time that has passed since your ancestor may have been living.If you have dates and places where the person lived, that will help with your weeding of so many hits. The trial will help if you are looking for just a few people, but if you really want to find out where you came from, you may find yourself buying the very expensive program. A cheaper way would be to buy the Family Tree Maker. They used to give you six months to a year of ancestry.com. Don't know what they do now, so you will need to find that out. Good luck.

There are some sites that if you Google will allow you to search their records for the person you are trying to find. Often Ancestry becomes a compilation of all those sites, kind of like Walmart coming to cities and eventually buying the other businesses out.