Genealogy Chat

I am at the moment on a free months trial to ancestry after buying a FTM cd when my trial is over should I pay the years subscription of £79 which seems an awful lot of money or not please advise

Marilyn

I've certainly found it valuable. Being able to look at the census pages and scroll back and forth to see who was in neighbouring properties has solved several problems I had and given me lots of information I wouldn't otherwise have had.
Maureen

Marilyn it depend what you want from this hobby. I couldn't be without Ancestry. Not only have I been doing my own tree but also hubbies and friends. I can look at all the census returns for the village I live in which is fascinating.
For my annual subscription I must have looked at thousands of images
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£79 is less then you would pay for a magazine every week and much more interesting.

Jennifer

thanks very much for your replies I guess then it is worth it just seems a lot of money at one time.

Marilyn

I have found it worth the money. I used to buy credits but had to cram all my look ups into a 14 day period, which is sometimes difficult to do. I took out subscription and can now do look up's whenever I want to.

Karen x

I agree that ancestry is very useful, but I have found the 14 days better as I pay in small bits and then use it like mad! Also you can view lots of records for free until you have used up your images. Depends on how much money you can spare at any one time.

I had mine paid for as a prezzie .......I can now help others like they helpped me when I first started .....I think its worth every penny

Good Luck

You could give them a ring before your month is up and see if you can get a reduction, quite often they will give 20% off which makes it just over £63, that's what I pid for mine.

Christine

Thanks all for your advice might give the phone call a chance do you have a number Christine?

I have paid for the last 3 years and this year when its due i am going to get the world one.I have now found a lot of rellies that emigrated.I think well worth the money. Annie

Hi Marilyn,

Phone no is 0800 404 9723 not sure of the hours it is available but certainly weekdays 9-5.

Christine

If you aren't sure whether it is worth it - you can normally get free access to Ancestry at your local library and e-mail yourself the images. The downside is you have to get to the library to do the lookups!

Hi Christine

Thank you so much you are so kind and thank you everyone else for your advice

Marilyn

i have been trying to decide about ancestry, at the min i have been buying credits, can any one tell me if paying the 9.95 a month is any good, i checked earlier and it said 6.66 annual or 9.95 monthly, i have emailed them but not had a reply.

andie

The £6.66 is the monthly equivalent if you pay the annual sub of £79 in one go.

Andy

If I use Ancestry in our local library, will I be able to contact all the idiots who have my sister in their trees m to a man b in 1723? Or can I merely look up records?
Huia.

thank you andy that explains that one then, why dont they just say that then.

so is the 9.95 just that every month or is there anything else hidden i should know about.

this is so confusing or am i just thick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

andie lol

I started off down the library then took a free trail at home. Kept Ancetsry going for a while at £9.95 a month to see how much I used it & then upgraded to annual for £63.96.

thanks for the infor i think thats what i am going to do,

andie

I think it is going to depend on where your ancestors were.

Many of mine lived in Somerset like me so I did my research on them in the Local Records Office. That isn't expensive but takes a lot of time. I made copies of their parish record entries and other documents like wills. I also found them on the censuses there.

If you can't get to the right office there are still a lot of sites online and if you are lucky you can find a lot of information there.

Ancestry is great but I've tended to use the occasional free trials.

Sue