Best genealogy site?

Question:I joined one, paid a fee, used up my allocated 'points' and then was asked to buy more. I know they have to make money, but what was the fee for if not to use the site??

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I joined one, paid a fee, used up my allocated 'points' and then was asked to buy more. I know they have to make money, but what was the fee for if not to use the site??

In my opinion the best site on the net is without a doubt
www.ancestry.com /.co.uk I have the global subscription and have tried www.findmypast.co.uk (formerly 1837 online ) , I think the latter one is rubbish, the best free site is without a doubt www.familysearch.org
Hope this helps.

ancestry.com

2 free sites.

rootsweb.com and familysearch.org

some sites are pay per view others are subscription

they are actually charging us for our own information...if you think this information should be free visit this site;http://anonymousgenealogy.blogspot.com/2...

The 2007 media kit says Ancestry has 760,000 subscribers

760,000
x $150 (per subscriber, and that is being conservative)
$114,000,000 Gross

And what is more they got their info mostly for free; exploiting well intentioned volunteers; Free BMD is a prime example....They are making 100s of millions from "free " public information!

Genes Reunited. Not sure if it works in other countries but it's great in the UK. ￡7 per year I think. You can send messages and look up other people with the same names in your family tree. Think you can try it for free. Here's the website.

There are fees when you look into the Census' and BDM files but you can get a fair way without looking into them.

Good luck

I gotta go with Ancestry.com, also.

Its a little expensive, but worth it, worth it, worth it.

Ellis Island.org is free and is pretty good.

The LDS site is good also, and thier family history libraries are excellent. I love doing this research and shoot me an e-mail and I'll give you a couple more tips, tell you more about my expieriences with Ancestry.com, and other things I have done in my quest to discover my family history.

FamilySearch.org is the largest online collection of genealogy records in the world & it's free! (It covers all people, too, even though it's associated with LDS.) They even offer free SW that you can use.

I can't answer about the other site you joined, especially since you didn't say which one it was...

Why don't you talk to people in your family to find out what's up with your ancestry? Good Luck

This is an All English Speaking Board and people on it are from the U.S., U.K., Canada,Australia and New Zealand. I will answer as if you are in the U. S.

I feel Ancestry.Com is the best for its records. They have all the U. S. censuses through 1930. The 1940 is not available to the public yet. Your public library might have a subscription to it you can utililze

Ancestry.Com, Rootsweb and Genealogy.Com have message boards. You can put a message or inquiry under a surname or location. If you put one on Ancestry.Com's it will show up on Rootsweb and vice versa.

Now, be very careful about not taking as fact everything you see in family trees on any website, free or paid. There are errors in family trees on website. They are user submitted and most are not documented. You sometimes will see different information on the same person by different submitters. Then you will see repeatedly the same information by many different submitters and no documentation.
A lot of people are copying without verifying.

Use the information as clues as to where to get the documentation.

Now Doctor John complained about having to pay for records. Those records are still available at your county courthouses, Bureau of Vital Statistics etc. However, Ancestry.Com has just spent the money to obtain the information and put it on their website. They have to pay people to do all of that. They keep you from having to go from courthouse to courthouse trying to find exactly where your family was which requires travel, hotel & motel costs etc. If you find your records on Ancestry.Com, you know exact where to get documentation.

Ancestry.com

Expensive, but WELL worth it.