ancestry.co.uk Reviews

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

Ever since I was little I have always been fascinated by history of some form or another and my own family history has been no exception. I have fond memories of sitting as a child spending hours gazing at the grainy photographs of the people with no names in my Grandma's photo albums, wishing that I knew more about them. Despite having a keen ...  Read the complete review

I find that amongst genealogists, Ancestry.co.uk and its sister site Ancestry.com gets a lot of bad press. It is true that a great deal of the information transcribed is inaccurate. That said, I would not have been able to progress my research to the stage it's at now without the site. What I like about it is its flexibility when it ...  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 it ...  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. Having hit ...  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 resources and ...  Read the complete review

I have found, as a family historian, a subscription to Ancestry.co.uk a must. Ancestry.co.uk holds a wealth of information from census records going back to 1841 to paris records going back even further. Ancestry are continually adding to their collections and recently added British WW1 Medal Rolls and service records. They even hold data from ...  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 journey and ...  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 out during ...  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 to find ...  Read the complete review

Well it isn't the Addams family... it is my family!! For those people who are interested in researching their family tree, you will find that there is no end of websites available online to help you with your search, whilst I don’t imagine you can trace absolutely everyone on your families ancestry, you can certainly use these ...  Read the complete review