"Many times, I have had to use the free familysearch in order to find records that were incorrectly indexed / transcribed by ancestry or just simply not available."
I agree; I get better search hits ON Ancom using search from RM4 AQ12.1 I do the same search here and get garbage. I have been a subscriber for many years but had no time till recently and have stuff in my shoebox from 5 yrs ago that I can not come up with from a search now??? I am sure the bad indexing tied to so many trees does have to be a programming nightmare, but "Come on Man..."