Ancestry.com

[gaby_ro_2004]

It costs $99 and it tells you that you are few percent of every country. 

[oldbuddy]

It costs $99 and it tells you that you are few percent of every country. 

They have sales at $69 (when I bought mine) and it does a LOT more.

[ejholt]

I have been on Ancestry.com for 6 years.  I have found so many people from all over the world.  On one line on my
fathers side, we came through Joseph and May.  That was a good find.  I have that line all the way back to Adam and Eve.  Hope everyone has a good day and may God bless each of you this Christmas.

[jenniferhoder]

I have never tried, but good luck!

[sfreeman8]

You all have peeked my interest enough to give it a try.  Is it very expensive?

Very expensive. When I first started with them back in the '90s, it was around $89 a year. Now it's $189 a year and that only gives you the U.S. It's another $199 if you want to go over the pond. I'm at that point where all my families are in England, Ireland, Wales, and Germany/France (Alsace region) but I just can't afford it. It's getting harder and harder to even have the U.S. one...but they have some really great resources and microfilmed records for the U.S., so I stay.

[sfreeman8]

I checked it out, but I didn't find it very useful. You have to put in all your own information, so unless you already know your whole family tree, it doesn't tell you anything. And if you already have that information, what good is it? (Unless I was doing something wrong.)

You don't need to know you're whole family. You just start with what you DO know. They have "hints"  that connect you to information that may be valuable and takes you further back in your ancestry. You also take a person and SEARCH for info on that person and up pops a list of census, military info, newspaper info, naturalization, birth, baptism, death and burial info, even public records like where your ancestor  lived and other members who are doing the same family. Some even have public school photos and photos of their ancestors that they freely allow others to use.

I used to go to different states and counties to find info on my family until I joined Ancestry. Now I go there first and then to other places if I can't find anything new.

[sfreeman8]

It costs $99 and it tells you that you are few percent of every country. 

Seriously? They charged me $189 this past June. Do you have full USA database access? It doesn't seem right that I'm paying double of everyone else. I'll be looking into why the difference. I don't think it's a good way to keep their most loyal customers, is it? 

[ladavia89]

It costs $99 and it tells you that you are few percent of every country. 

Seriously? They charged me $189 this past June. Do you have full USA database access? It doesn't seem right that I'm paying double of everyone else. I'll be looking into why the difference. I don't think it's a good way to keep their most loyal customers, is it? 

I'm sure they meant it's $99 for the Ancestry DNA test not for membership

[BlackSheepNY]

It costs $99 and it tells you that you are few percent of every country. 

They have sales at $69 (when I bought mine) and it does a LOT more.

Please explain.  I'd like to know what you thought of it and what kind of info you found useful from it.  Thank you!