Name: Ancestry.com
Rating: 4.2

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Dizzy Norcross, GA

Ancestry DNA has a large database which helps match me my relatives. I like being able to know what my ethnicity is and comparing DNA percentages with my relatives estimates. It has been helpful to figure out the connection.

5 years ago

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Mary Talladega, AL

Ancestry has A LOT of information BUT you will pay dearly for it. I had used Ancestry to make my "free family tree" quite a while back. I quickly realized that I couldn't do much more than what I knew of my extended family because I would have to pay for a subscription (no problems!) So i purchased a disk (thats how long ago we talking here) and was able to start the tree. A few years later i wanted to work on tree again...its like $20 a month! WTH! I love the info but that's a lot of money!

5 years ago

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STurner Saratoga Springs, UT

This is the best available company for genealogy I have found. It has millions of records and it’s users friendly. I love that they include links to their source. Very good company. I have free access to it from Family Search by LDS Church. They have a partnership which makes the two a very powerful source for looking up names.

6 years ago

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Dre35 West Valley City, UT

great user interface with the family tree, so much information on the family. Such a wonderful tool to find more out about my family's history! I especially love the screenshots of the actual historical documents, ie ship passenger records, census, draft cards, marriage docs, etc.!

6 years ago

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Dawn N Thatcher, AZ

Seems like the largest supply of historical records in the world. I've been able to turn so many corners and find lost family members. Not only by searching those records but by the DNA results and linking. Ancestry is absolutely a must in family research.

6 years ago

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Nikki Zimmerman Eagle Mountain, UT

We did this as a whole for our entire family for Christmas and it was so fun to get back everyone’s detailed reports and go over them together. Such an exciting thing to learn about you and family members and where we all came from.

6 years ago

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fabulous_finn Gaithersburg, MD

While I have never had to pay for using Ancestry.com (thanks to FamilySearch) I find that Ancestry is far easier to learn and use. I also appreciate the ability to lock your family tree, so that random people can't mistakenly attach themselves to your family tree.

6 years ago

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Adrianne murray Brigham City, UT

Love this! I was just on the site (I’ve had it for years) and saw myself in a 1994 year book. Then it showed me my dads and moms yearbooks from the 60’s. Really cool! I love the dna part also. Mines been done for over a year and I just bought it for my husband for Christmas

6 years ago

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Connor Farmington, UT

Finding out about your ancestry with your family and relatives is easy through Ancestry.com. Having the Ancestry DNA makes it even more fun and provides information about yourself you never even knew! The find relatives option is super easy and extremely interesting as well.

6 years ago

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ave Pleasant Grove, UT

One of the best genealogical website out there. You can find so much information about your family tree and stories that you didn't know that were out there. They also offer DNA tests for a fee and you can find out what your origin is. Very cool to know!

7 years ago

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Christine Farmer Littleton, CO

I have used Ancestry for DNA testing and for research for family history. The DNA testing is fun and informative. I expected a little more detail, but I am satisfied. The kit was easy to use and the results came online. It is fun to compare with other family members and see who you are connected to online! The research tools are also valuable, I have used it to look for birth, death or marriage records and also immigration records.

7 years ago

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Julie Kincaid Soldotna, AK

I love, love, love this site. I use it several times a week for family history work. What I love most is that it give you other record hints that might match the person you are searching for. These hints aren't perfect, but they often give you clues about other documents. I would totally recommend this site to a friend and will keep using it.

7 years ago

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Scott Orem, UT

I have fiddled around and experimented on Ancestry.com and really enjoy my time when doing so. Its really interesting to learn about your ancestors and where you come from. I have found a better sense of family pride since signing up on Ancestry.

7 years ago

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Reese Pleasant Grove, UT

I have used this site many times and they are very up to date with their information and content. I have lots of information on my ancestors there and I like that they show where they came from and map things out. Easy to add to and many learning tools to take advantage of. I especially like the DNA options.

7 years ago

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Jeff B Orem, UT

Ancestry is an amazing website to research your genealogy. They offer the most resources for anyone looking to get into genealogy and they make it very easy. I have really enjoyed finding out things that I didn't know before about my ancestors. The pricing is awesome and the service is even better.

7 years ago

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Cristiana Orem, UT

Ancestry.com changed my life. Once my family and I start to use this company we were able to find a lot of family members. People that works in this company are super friendly and really understand all the big deal of the company idea. Never paid for used and always had a great experience.

7 years ago

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Brennan Orem, UT

Cool website and service. I have absolutely loved using Ancestry.com to look into my family genealogy. The website is very self explanatory and you quickly find yourself becoming a pro due to the ease of use. I would highly recommend using Ancestry.com for anyone interested in genealogy!

7 years ago

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Lindsey A Brown Lehi, UT

Ancestry.com is such an excellent way to learn about and search family history. Lots of great information can be found and stored for the future. I have really enjoyed searching for my ancestors and get so excited when I come across someone who I've been looking for.

7 years ago

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Brody B Orem, UT

Awesome, interesting, informational and addicting! If you haven't researched your genealogy you are missing out. Ancestry is the leader in the market and have the most options and functionality. I have absolutely loved my experience with Ancestry.

7 years ago

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Ann Bailey Lehi, UT

I recently gave my parents Ancestry DNA kits for Christmas. It was interesting to find out that my Dad really didn't have Native American Heritage after being told he had a certain percentage his whole life. It gave us some answers to some of those questions.

7 years ago

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Shayla Hankins Lehi, UT

Ancestry helped me find not only who my ancestors were, but where they came from and where they died. It also showed me pictures of them and their tombstones. Ancestry let me know what my genealogy was to the smallest percentage.

7 years ago

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Hailey Nilson Salt Lake City, UT

Ancestry.com has completely changed my life. My mom and I were interested to see where we came from, and with a little research we found out some incredible things about our family. The program is easy to use and so much fun!

7 years ago

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Jorden Laird Front Royal, VA

I first signed up for ancestry because I was adopted and wanted to learn a little bit more about myself. I ended up finding extending family and information from my adopted family. The family tree feature has been SO MUCH FUN to use.

7 years ago

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Mildred Carter Woodbridge, VA

Ancestry is REALLY cool, just because of the built in family tree tool. I literally traced my father's side back generations in the span of a day. The documents, the birth records - it's all fascinating, especially from a history standpoint.

7 years ago

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Katie Kearney Vienna, VA

My sister and I did this and it was so cool to learn about our ancestry! There were so many things we did not know and I was amazed how much information they were able to send! If you haven't done this yet, I highly recommend it!

7 years ago

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Justin Alpine, UT

Ancestry.com may be a little bit confusing at first, but once you get a hang of it, you can do so much on it. It holds so much information about people's ancestors which can be very hard to find. It is also very well organized!

7 years ago

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Angela Nelson Pleasant Grove, UT

I use Ancestry along with FamilySearch.org to do all my family history. Ancestry has a great collection of records and is always adding more. Also, I did the Ancestry DNA kit and I love having links to new relatives. I am still trying to put all the pieces together, but I am now in contact (messaging through Ancestry) with so many new relatives I never knew I had.

7 years ago

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Irene Anders Folsom, CA

Love this site. It is quite expensive but has many positives. You can create your own tree and control access to other people. It provides hints for more information and documentation. Invaluable if you are in to searching for ancestors.

7 years ago

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Karlee Schramm Pleasant Grove, UT

Ancestry.com is a very useful app/website. It allows me to access my ancestors and can trace back really far. I am also allowed to add information about my ancestors that I later learn about. This app is so useful and lets many people be able to track their own ancestors very easily. Overall I love this app!

8 years ago

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Sofie Rosenvall Alpine, UT

Ancestry.com makes filling out your family tree a breeze. It has been so much fun to find ancestors that have passed on before me. Fun to see pics of gravesites, and learn more about my heritage... I also like the way multiple people can be working on the same family member and we can each enter all the info we have found... I also did the DNA test and I loved the results... Such a great company!

8 years ago

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Jo Lars Pleasant Grove, UT

I bought my husband the DNA testing kit through Ancestry.com. It arrived in the mail quickly and once he sent his sample in, the results came back quickly as well. He enjoyed learning more about his heritage through his DNA results.

8 years ago

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Joy Henry Pleasant Grove, UT

My family has done their DNA tests and my husband has found family members. He is adopted so this has been a great tool. I enjoyed finding my history as well and love to see how far it can go and how many people make connections they never would have without this develpment!

8 years ago

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NT Pleasant Grove, UT

addicting. my mother, sisters and myself started this and we have been addicted searching for our family tree. it has been a long process but very easy to do. they have step by step help for starters. once you start you will be addicted. we have found so many of our family memebers. its so exciting.

8 years ago

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Kim Millett Lindon, UT

My favorite way to search for people is using Ancestry. I love the way it brings up other possible records to the side. I also love how easy it is to search a whole family at once. I have been a Family History Specialist for ten years and Ancestry is my favorite site.

8 years ago

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Mallory Millett Lindon, UT

I use ancestry weekly. My favorite feature is being able to pull up a record and see connecting links on the side that lead to other records. Very useful service. I use to pay for it, but now have it for free as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

8 years ago

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Preston Fowler Pleasant Grove, UT

My experience with ancestry.com has overall been very good, it's enjoyable to be able to find your ancestors and have the website that you are doing it on help you find them. The leafs are helpful in finding ancestors and it is something that is unique to ancestry.com.

8 years ago Edited September 14, 2021

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Alex Lewis Salt Lake City, UT

I love ancestry.com! It has been so fun to search for family members and to see my family growing. I also did a DNA test a few more than ago and loved getting the results so quickly. They were easy to browse through and such a fun thing to learn about myself.

8 years ago

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Yolanda Queer Shelley, ID

Ancestry.com is a fun way to pass time! It's wonderful to learn about your family, and it's easy to get the kids involved, too. It's very easy to access.

5 years ago

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Brayden Ibert Houston, TX

I used Ancestry.com to find out my background and it was so easy! The website was very simple to understand and when they sent me everything to do it all the instructions were very clear. I’m so glad I used Ancestry.com

6 years ago

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OwenE. Norcross, GA

Me and my mother researched this website for a bout a year and found some undiscovered family in Georgia and we now have kept in touch with them ever since.

6 years ago

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Cade Boudreaux , FL

Me and my family decided to try Ancestry a couple of years ago. It was amazing to see our family in such a massive place. Thanks to Ancestry I’m able to know my entire bloodline!

6 years ago

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Dick Gosinya

Good experience and interesting results and I learned some family history that it seems everybody should n my family is unaware of. I also paid to do Ancestry DNA test which was worth the extra money $$.

7 years ago

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Alice McGaughey

Researching family history very easy to use. Not time consuming like some sites. Prompts help you gather the information. You can save information and return to the site where you left iff

7 years ago

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Dave H.

I researched and discovered my ancestry as far back as the 1600s. I also wrote a book through their assests and discovered that my 5th Ggrandfather fought in the Revolution

7 years ago

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Dan Saint Charles, MO

I received several messages notifying me of the great progress and it would only be two weeks before receiving my results. Well that when on for weeks until I received a very unwelcoming notice that I had to request a new kit as the sample failed. Spending about three wasted and frustrating hours on the phone with customer service a supervisor who seemed very accommodating said she would work on my refund and call me back in twenty minutes. That never happened and when I called back and spoke with my third representative I was told there was no notes in the system. Given they work from home she couldn’t see what supervisor may have spoken with me. No apologies in their request or sorry for the inconvenience, we will send a new kit out. No everything was put back on the customer. They are the absolute worst I have ever dealt with.

7 years ago

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Rose Sturgeon-Mabini Puyallup, WA

I just received my results for my ancestry DNA. I was blown away and saddened by how fraudulent it appears to be. I only submitted my DNA because I wanted to see what percentage of native American I was. My grandmother was 1/2 Cherokee Indian and my father's side also has Cherokee Indian as well. My best friend and I did it and submitted ours pretty close to the same time. We got our results back and they are almost identical with the EXACT same wording, just the percentages a tiny bit different. And......had 0% of anything related to being any native American. Never again will I believe in this.

7 years ago

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Thomas Hullinger Pleasant Grove, UT

They have everything you need to find your ancestors and add information to your line if you have it. I like their DNA tracking and all of the other services that they provide.

8 years ago

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Coleen Daniels Myersville, MD

This is a great site for those who are looking to find their long lost relatives. It is user friendly and has lots of great documents and information that can help you on you genealogical path!

8 years ago

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Sav Flo

Ancestry is a great resource to do my family history, but I find myself having a difficult time moving around the website. I think there just might be too many options and it is a little overwhelming. I am so happy there is a website so that I can connect to my ancestors.

9 years ago

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Nancy Zewiey

Presently purchasing Worldwide Membership on a semi-annual basis. $330 a year. Have been purchasing and using Family Tree Maker for more than 10 years, spending $100's and thousand of hours. As of March 29, 2017 have been unable to sync FTM with Ancestry. Despite numerous inquiries no Software Mac Kiev fails to responds. Attempting to get resolution to this problem, I researched SM which claims to be headquartered in Boston, On Google maps they are locate in the middle of the Sumner Tunnel. This is in fact a Ukrainian company [Kiev]. And totally unresponsive to th promised release of FTM 2017 which supposedly would then allow me to sync again with online trees. Real dirty pool. 2nd problem. Have purchased 6 DNA kits over the past 4 years. But for the past week have been unable to access my DNA matches I think this is due to an update which created a new aspect of online DNA matches which I could access Wednesday and it was totally accurate. My problem was assigned to a technician Tuesday but this anonymous person has taken no action and is unreachable by telephone either to me or the customer service reps. Until the last year I would have rated the knowledge, professionalism, and understanding of Ancestry Customer Service as outstanding. The phone was immediately answered by a real person who quickly resolved my problem. Now after 5 minutes of electronic voice, and 4 to 6 minute waiting for live assistance on third of reps may not speak English fluently , have an attitude of superiority, and are not knowledgeable. Ancestry is a service business the data they distribute are free open public records already paid for by taxpayers an it is collected largely by volunteer mormons and other persons interested in amateur history and, or genetics. I am now very frustrated especiall at the fact such personal data is being freely given to the land of hackers and Putin.

9 years ago