I do use other databases besides Ancestry TM and FamilySearch. One of these is called American Ancestors. Their website includes links to hire a pro.
Excerpt: We offer more than 470 record-based databases to search, containing data from all over the globe. Unique datasets include the Boston Catholic records,
According to my library, they have access to over 3000 searchable collections.
What I check them for mostly is Irish research especially as those include Boston Roman Catholics.
Years ago there were various start ups and some of those remain on the Internet or grew via volunteers and it seems that Ancestry TM and FamilySearch are the ones have grown the most. So sometimes the difference is indexing.
There have been times where I checked more than one of the genealogy databases to find people on the census and indexing made all he differance.
