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Ancestry.com anyone else feel like this is a rip off?
Posted on 6/26/16 at 5:20 pm
Posted on 6/26/16 at 5:20 pm
So I did the month long subscription...
I inputted my information, my parents, my sibling, and even my grandparents... however the damn site could not give me anything more...
I had to go and search for the information and without my parents, this was rather hard to do. Both sets of grandparents are dead so I could not ask them about their parents.
Even after talking with my parents trying to figure it out I was only able to go to my great grandparents and some of my parent's uncles/aunts. I thought this site would help you fill in the pieces once they had enough information.
Was a waste of money imo for a month.
I inputted my information, my parents, my sibling, and even my grandparents... however the damn site could not give me anything more...
I had to go and search for the information and without my parents, this was rather hard to do. Both sets of grandparents are dead so I could not ask them about their parents.
Even after talking with my parents trying to figure it out I was only able to go to my great grandparents and some of my parent's uncles/aunts. I thought this site would help you fill in the pieces once they had enough information.
Was a waste of money imo for a month.
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Posted on 6/26/16 at 5:22 pm to tduecen
I loved it while I was subscribed. I could see it not being worth it if you run into problems like you described. Thankfully, there was an abundance of information available for my family, and the holes that were there were easily filled by asking other family members. Was able to trace my family all the way back to the early 1500s. It was pretty sweet.
Posted on 6/26/16 at 5:24 pm to tduecen
I use it to help me run ancient title. Sometimes you don't know where a probate is recorded until going on ancestry and tracking down where they lived/died. It's only as good as the input - like Wikipedia - so if you have some crazy genealogy-obsessed cousin who does all the work, then it could be great.
Posted on 6/26/16 at 5:24 pm to tduecen
I have relatives and that's their biggest hobby. I guess if it's your hobby then it's not a waste of money.
Posted on 6/26/16 at 5:25 pm to tduecen
It all depends on who else has been doing work on common ancestors. Someone you don't know who has the same great-great grandparent may have traced the line back five generations and put it online, so you don't have to do anything. If no one in your family tree has done that, you're SOL.
Posted on 6/26/16 at 5:29 pm to tduecen
My aunt is obsessed with genealogy so ours is pretty informative. On one side of the family we went back to a marriage certificate from the early 1600s and the other side went back to the signing of the Magna Carta
Posted on 6/26/16 at 5:31 pm to tduecen
The way you're wanting the site to work, isn't how it works. You need to be searching for the oldest grand parent you can think of. If other relatives haven't started a tree, it's going to really hard to get anywhere.
Posted on 6/26/16 at 5:33 pm to ZekeTheTeke
We for sure go back to England and Scotland in the 1500's. The unofficial family historian claims to have traced us back to a tribal chieftain who raided the borders of the Roman Empire, but I'm kind of dubious about that.
This is going to turn into another OT thing where everybody is descended from royalty.
This is going to turn into another OT thing where everybody is descended from royalty.
Posted on 6/26/16 at 5:35 pm to tduecen
My great-great-grandmother on my father's side and my second cousin, twice removed, thought it was a ripoff too.
Posted on 6/26/16 at 5:36 pm to Calvin Candie
quote:Then that is where I am at... because I can't find much information outside of great grandparents and even that I'm not sure is 100% accurate since I couldn't find marriage/land information only military information.
If other relatives haven't started a tree, it's going to really hard to get anywhere.
Posted on 6/26/16 at 5:37 pm to Titus Pullo
TPOS site told me my dad was my cusin. What a jip.
Posted on 6/26/16 at 5:38 pm to tduecen
Time to go dust off the marriage books at the courthouse. You'd be amazed how well some parishes/counties preserve their records.
Posted on 6/26/16 at 5:39 pm to Jim Rockford
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This is going to turn into another OT thing where everybody is descended from royalty.
Everyone most likely is. For most of history the people at the top of society out-bred people at the bottom. Over time that meant the king had a lot more descendants than his contemporaries.
20% of Irishmen are direct male descendants of Niall. Presidential candidates typically have a royal ancestor if you go back far enough.
Posted on 6/26/16 at 6:10 pm to tduecen
If you want to use ancestry.com for free you can access it at your local library.
Posted on 6/26/16 at 6:13 pm to tduecen
I did the 6 months and lost interest after 3 months. I hit a dead end. It sucked. I don't really have the desire to travel to God knows where to look up newspaper articles about people who died 100 years ago. Life is for the living!
Posted on 6/26/16 at 6:20 pm to LSUBFA83
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If you want to use ancestry.com for free you can access it at your local library.
How does that work? Do they give you their login?
Posted on 6/26/16 at 6:35 pm to Tiger Ryno
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TPOS site told me my dad was my cusin.
Well is he from th south??
Posted on 6/26/16 at 6:53 pm to tduecen
My wife just got it a few weeks ago & has learned how to affectively use it. She was able to solve a lot of issues on her mother's side and already went back to the early 1800's on her dad's side.
I already have my dad's family info. when they came over from France, but I am going to see how good she can do with my mother's side. Judging by what she has already done, I can't fault Ancestry.com at all...
I already have my dad's family info. when they came over from France, but I am going to see how good she can do with my mother's side. Judging by what she has already done, I can't fault Ancestry.com at all...
Posted on 6/26/16 at 7:02 pm to tduecen
From experience you can only go back so far, especially if your black, I was trying to trace my roots back to Africa, but stopped at 1908 with my great(3) grandfather as a servant. Interesting yes, worth the money probably not.
Posted on 6/26/16 at 7:03 pm to tduecen
OP, you're doing this wrong. Ancestry.com is a shared database of genealogical research. You have to be able to provide enough information to tie yourself into some existing research. If you didn't get it from your immediate family and didn't want to put in the effort to go online and look at census records or something, you shouldn't have expected anything out of it.
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