re: Has anyone ever used ancestry dot com?

i did the free trial and it was a rip-off. 3 days of inputing crap and did not find nothing. waste of time. scam.

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I traced my paternal side all the way back to this village in France. My last name is one of one's mentioned.

Ancestry.com commercial just came on while reading this... Weird.

Wen I traced my ancestry, I realized that many of these Cajun families are all interrelated. Some of the names of my direct ancestors: Champagne, delaHoussey, Bourg, Melancon, Dupuy, Rau, LeBlanc, Rodrigue, Fanguy, Martinet.

My mom used it and even did the DNA test

found out she is 25% West African, 7 % English, 7 % Irish, 7% Scandinavian and the rest native American.

use this site it's free
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I found out that a lot of the family trees posted on their site are bogus

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At least Ancestry makes it easy to check documentation. They have searches for all census documents, marriage registrations, military documentation, and dozens of other primary sources.

I have been a member for at least ten years, maybe more and use it all the time. I take care to annotate my direct lineage with notations about the hard documentation that substantiates the ancestry.

Prior to ancestry I used a lot of other sites, and they truly were just people's raw inputs - no possible way to check it out within their own site. Then I had to do all the research by reviewing hard copy - and that entailed a huge amount of travel time, and reading time. That was when I started my habit of annotating my efforts with the supporting documentation.

With ancestry, this process is x1000 times easier. I keep my membership up in the hopes that someone may someday post something that will shed light on my three remaining brick walls - no substantiating information available and not even a good 'bogus rumor' as to their lineage.

If you are interested in amateur genealogy there is not a better site than Ancestry. I suspect that even professional genealogist make substantial use of it. It is absolutely excellent - and a real bargain if you are serious about getting quality information.

Of course if you are lazy, it is a good way to compile a lot of garbage too.

You can use ancestry.com for free at your local library. When I used it I found a copy of my great-grandfather's draft card from WWI.

My mom and grandmother had already run our lines back as far as they could. I've looked around on there but didn't find anything they hadn't already found. English, Scottish, and Cherokee. On my dad's side the records start in the British Isles in the late 1500's and we arrived in North America in the mid 1600's. My mom's family first shows up around 1700 in S. Carolina. She hasn't been able to trace it back any further than that.