ancestry.co.uk Reviews

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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

I have been using Ancestry for about 5 years now, ever since I first became interested in researching my family tree and was extremely pleased when I found out I could put forward my opinion about the site on DooYoo! Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk) is a website for helping people to trace their family history, and in my opinion ...  Read the complete review

I first started tracing my family history way back in the early 1990s. At that time, researching where you came from involved making numerous trips to record offices and libraries all over the country, and then spending hour after hour trawling through microfilms searching for that elusive John Jones, living somewhere in Liverpool. ...  Read the complete review

I've always wondered about my family history and have many times asked my parents and grandparents about their parents and grandparents. It wasn't however until two years ago when I decided that I was going to make a considerable effort to find out more about my own genealogy. I have since then used a considerable amount of different ...  Read the complete review

The world of genealogy is a fascinating pastime and one which becomes more pervasive and demanding of time the more you put into it. I have spent the last eighteen months converting our own records history from a hand written collection of notes into a computerised database and a web based family magazine. I outlined the steps in this ...  Read the complete review

I started tracing my family history in 1985 by going to libraries and archives etc. This was too time consuming so I didn't do any more until a few months ago when I decided to take advantage of a free trial with Ancestry.co.uk. Initially I didn't intend to subscribe but I was so impressed by the amount of information I found ...  Read the complete review

I have been using ancestry.co.uk for a number of years now. I originally started with a free trial, then stayed as a paying member as they were slowly introducing =UK census returns. These are now complete for the years 1841-1901. The databases are fully indexed and you do not need to know everything about your ancestors ...  Read the complete review