ancestry.co.uk

Being an Ancestry user of four years or so, I've had plenty of time to get used to the site layout (although this has lately been modified - more on that later) and build up an impression of the service they offer. To begin with, the £84 a year subscription is pretty good value for money - it would easily cost me £7 a day to get to my nearest records office using public transport and get dinner, and that's assuming I only visited once a month. There is a pay-per-view type of option on Ancestry - great if you want to look up just one family on the census records but too expensive to do all your research that way. For this you get access to BMDs and census ...  Read the complete review

Ancestry.co.uk is a website where you can search for your ancestors as the name suggests. I was able to succesfully track back my roots up until the late 1700s through most family lines relatively quickly, due to the fact the site has been around for many years, you'll find that once you get into the 1800s, there's already someone who has researched a lot of the family trees and by clicking on the family tress section with the desired name and birthdate, you are likely to find a lot more relatives. The amount of information throughout the last century is not as good as it could be, so ideally you want to be able to know the details of your great grandparents ...  Read the complete review

Once you've started on your family tree there are a number of decisions you'll need to make. Amongst the first are who are you going to put on your tree ie: will you be restricing it to just "direct" ancestors (grandparents, great grandparents, great great grandparents) etc or:- Will you be including everyone ie: not just your grandparents / great grandparents but their siblings & extended family as well? Obviously, the more people you are searching for the more searches you will do. So you have to decide whether to splash out on a site like Ancestry which charges more for it's membership than a site likes ...  Read the complete review

Ancestry.co.uk membership is a must for the serious family historian with family to research in England and Wales. It isn't perfect, no website is, and it isn't cheap, the basic 'Essentials' membership is £83.40 per year if you pay in one payment. What do you get for your money? Well you get full access to England and Wales censii from 1841 to 1901. (Both transcriptions and actual images) All England and Wales birth, marriage and death registrations from 1837 to 2005. WW1 Army Medal Cards Some WW1 Army service records. ( These are still being added and as some people may know they are not complete as they were a victim of WW2 ...  Read the complete review

I had always thought about researching my family tree but had never really gotten around to it, until I saw a two week free trial at ancestry.co.uk. I thought I might as well have a go, so I signed up. You do have to register your card details as if you are really signing up but you are always able to cancel before the end of the trial period. You get a choice of three subscription packages: Essentials - 10.95 a month in which you can search and view historical records from Birth, Marriage and Death Indexes to Census records. Premium - 12.95 a month which is everything from the essentials package plus access to pre-1837 Parish ...  Read the complete review