In fairness I must correct my statement that FMP was cheaper, it isn't. I based my statement on last years 6 monthly subscription, where I believe I paid £65. I must have caught them at a promotion discount time. This year it is about £82 for 6 months. The enhanced viewer problems were widely reported in 2008 for firefox and IE8, none of the solutions regarding admin rights or cookies worked for me, uninstalling the OCX worked, this too is on the Ancestry boards. Furthermore should you decide on Ancestry.co then you can make great savings by buying the Family tree maker software platinum package. This was on sale for £30 (Comet, Dixons, Amazon etc) and gave 6 ...  Read the complete review

I have mentioned in one of my other reviews, I have been doing my family tree for many years and have gone far back as the late 1300s and use another site for researching along with this one and many others to help me progress further finding my ancestors and what kind of life they lived, I have not found any millionaires as yet but have found some that were very wealthy and had many estates and businesses. Ancestry is a research site that has lots of things to search, such as Birth, Death and Marriage records, it also has reference numbers for ordering a certificate, and they are volume and page numbers and district of the event. You can if you ...  Read the complete review

Following my wedding in 2006 I wanted a hobby to fill the void that wedding planning had left. I had always been curious about my family tree and wondered how true some of the stories about pirates and gyspsies that I had been told as a child were. What began as a little dabble turned into a huge rollercoaster full of facinating stories, haunted houses, shipwreck survivors, championship wresters and diamond miners, american pilgrims. I found a whole new arm of my familymy husbands family found links with every king going back to the year dot. Through this adventure the site that I turned to when researching was Ancestry and it just gets better and better. ...  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