Www.ancestry.com?!?!?!?

Question:how does ancestry.com work?
like, u fill out ur name and kids and etc. but their ads state that they can tell u where certain traits of u have come from. how does this work when ur grandparents didnt know that the internet existed.?

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like, u fill out ur name and kids and etc. but their ads state that they can tell u where certain traits of u have come from. how does this work when ur grandparents didnt know that the internet existed.?

Ancestry.com only sells perpetual subscriptions. You must call and cancel your subscription to end the billing and you cant after you die. In this way they have been collecting money from the estates of the dead for many years.

Fooey on Ancestry.com. What a way to honour our children and ancestors, they rob them! As Ted points out they are also great liars.

You build your family tree with people in your family who have deceased. It searches for files which they have been entered into their database from old Census, Birth, Death, Marriage, Military, Church, Immigration, etc. Records.

Their ads take poetic license. Many others do too.

"Axe" body wash won't make women fawn over young men. "Red Bull" energy drink won't let you fly like a bird. You won't get a body like Chuck Norris with 20 minutes of exercise 3 times a week. If your great grandfather was a biplane pilot, it doesn't mean you have a streak of dare-devil in you.

Don't believe everything you see on television.

Ancestry has a huge collection of records, and they sell subscriptions to them. It is to genealogy what HBO is to movies; people who are interested pay to look. It is a bit like a library; you have to do the research yourself, but they make it easier for you with indexes and on-line access.

Ancestry.com means just that--your ancestors. Only people who have died have their full names listed in any of their thousands of databases, so if you would enter the name of your parents who might still be alive, it would list them as--an example--"Living Smith" and "Living Jones." Their parents names, however, if they have passed on, would be listed as "John Smith" and "Jane Jones", with their birth/death dates (if known) and city, county, and state/country where it happened. A sample entry would read:
"John Q. Smith
Birth: 27 May 1925, [city], [county], New York
Died: 17 August 2001, [city], [county], California"

As for the certain traits you mentioned (I assume you mean why you have brown hair and blue eyes for example), that has to do with DNA tests you can order from the website. Your grandparents not knowing the internet existed has nothing to do with the current ability to do DNA tests or tracing your family back as far as you can.

ancestry is great for finding information. they have lots of records, not just from th US. I've never seen anything about traits, though. their family tree builder is ok, its not great but its not terrible either. however they do have this new DNA test (that is exepensive) where they will make matches to other people or say where you are from. they have one for males (can't remember what its called) and one for mitochondrial DNA