Ancestry.co.uk Reviews 

I keep getting hints that I all ready have, much off which I found externally from Ancestry.

I have been researching family history for around 25 years. For most of that time Ancestry has been my main source of information. Recently I identified an ancestor called John Burgoyne born in 1360. He was my 15 times great grandfather. We all have a quarter of a million 15 times great grandparents. So we all have very interesting ancestors. It just needs research, mostly with Ancestry, to find them. John Burgoyne was a lawyer and four times member of parliament for Cambridge - a "knight of the shire", who did legal work for Richard II. Apart from that, thanks to Ancestry DNA, my wife recently found a long lost first cousin living in Sydney Australia. They now regularly correspond

Generally the process of locating ancestors is fairly easily but sometimes the records you need just aren't there. If you hit a brick wall just keep searching, I recently knocked down a 5 year old brick wall

In my opinion I think Ancestry is the best family tree search site of them all, But it is still full of mistakes probably less than the others but be very careful , check and check again for the facts, send for certificates don't rely on others for data, also if someone has thousands of people on their tree they have just copied from someone else, keep your tree private...

I have used Ancestry in conjunction with Family Tree Maker for many years. The functions perform well, the map does need updating as dies the inbuilt browser. As with all family tree applications, you need to be aware of users adding incorrect data.

We’ve found out things which had remained secrets for years and would never normally have found out without Ancestry research tools.
The DNA aspect has also confirmed our link to Ancestors which normally would have been impossible to prove. EG A gg grandmother born out of wedlock , no father on birth certificate, yet my links to others on DNA proved who the father was- incredible. Unfortunately the family links to this story led to historical record of a “rogue” section of our family who were deported to Australia for various crimes.
What an intricate web lies in our history- good , bad and sad.

I found out such a lot I uncovered brothers that I didn't know I had which was a shock, it was a shock to my brother as well but a very pleasant one, we visit every year we have know idea what went on with our parents but so pleased we found each other

prepare for a journey back in time, not everything is a bed of roses, there will be nice things and bad things, so , unless you are prepared for some shocking details, don't dip your toes into the waters; it can be very addictive as you go further back amd families are bigger, like 10 or more children. have fun!

Used to use Ancestry all the time but year after year the price increases make using it just unsustainable. They have had thousands of pounds off me over the last couple of decades and this years price hike was a step too far. Shop around, there are other equally good sites available for less than half the price!2

I have used ancestry for a number of years and find it easy to navigate, however there are some collections missing which other companies have. It makes it difficult sometimes to verify information.

Ancestry is quick and easy to use and works on the go so wherever I am I can add something new or check-in on one the thousands of people in my trees using my iPhone. That’s why I’ve stayed with it. It’s like one of the family now.

Easy to navigate and the pages have all the family members on view so you are not switching from one to another.

I like Ancestry, however as a person living on a pension, I struggle with the cost of things. I realise that there has to a cost involved but I think it is quite expensive. Maybe the price points could be tweaked somewhat to make it more attractive. I'm sure I would do more if it were less costly. I was disappointed in the DNA result, it was far too generic and did not tell me anything I did not already know. With Scots ancestry I was hoping for something more.

It is totally amazing. I have found my ancestors back to the 16th Century and have been to my ancestral land, through info from Ancestry.

No two months are ever the same with Ancestry, who are constantly adding new records to the site, enabling you to add more information to each ancestor's record. I tend to log on most days and can see quickly what has been added, and the tips can be fascinating, even though sometimes in the multi thousands, but containing many nuggets.

Well I can honestly say that Ancestry has been a fantastic and major help in finding out the history of my family. The amount of detail, and how it has increased, is amazing. I am a Bristolian and knew my family on both sides had long links with the city but a recent family gathering made me prepare a tree and going back to the late 1600’s in some cases the family group was from Bristol or no more than twenty miles away. There was one major exception on my mum’s side where my paternal great gran, whilst born in Bristol, the family came from Cork and a significant element of Irish DNA. The family came over in the 1850’s and I assume a direct reaction to the famine. Another surprise my best mate at school and who lived on the other side of Bristol I found was a cousin of my cousin whose ancestors were linked by mining communities on the eastern edge of the city in the 1800’s and their great great grandfather had been sent to Melbourne as a convict in the 1840’s, he stole glassware and other items from a chapel in a village my cousin lived in for 40 years.

Brothers from Other Mothers

I was dragged up in the 1950’s in Crawley, Sussex & my first day at Hazelwick Secondary Modern School in September 1959 was next a guy called Robert (Bob) Batey, We got on well & became firm friends for the rest of our schooling. We were both in the Scouts & both loved football. I left School in October 1964 to join the West Sussex Constabulary as a Police Cadet & was posted to Shoreham. Bob stayed on for a further year & then joined a Crawley Bank. On completing my Training I was posted to Bognor Regis, & lost touch a bit with Bob. I received information that Bob had switched careers in 1969 & had joined Sussex Police & was at at Sandgate Police Training School in Kent & I asked him to let me know where he was going to be posted. Sussex by now had amalgamated all five Force in the County to one which was now the Sussex Constabulary. The call from Bob came through & he told me he had been posted to Bognor Regis & that he was on ‘A’ Section, which was my section. Needless to say I put him through it a bit baptism on his arrival. But despite that we remained good mates & he was our Best Man when I married in 1971. On marriage I was posted to Brighton as I had waived my rites to remain in West Sussex. Bob & our careers never crossed from then on. As Bob was mainly a Special Branch Officer & I was mainly a Drugs & CID. On retirement in 1996 I started to look at my ancestry & found out, out of the blue, that my Great Grandfather was a Met PC in 1888 in Whitechapel (Jack the Ripper time & area). I did some research & found his warrant numbers, collar number etc., but he did not complete his service & left without a pension. My father knew nothing of this. End of story or so I thought?

As Bob is 3 days older than me I thought I would have a look at his story & he always told me he was an Essex Boy!! So imagine my shock when I found that HIS great Grandfather was an Acting Sergeant in the Met at the same time as my Great Grandfather, the difference being he nearly served all his time, but went out on the sick with a pension but sadly lasted 5 days after retirement & dying. Sad or what. Bob again knew nothing of this & was as surprised as I was. He’s still my Best mate now to this day. Hence my headline.

I love the way the family tree is arranged on Ancestry and the way you can switch between horizontal and vertical is really helpful. Each person's profile page is also beautifully arranged in a very logical and helpful way. Ancestry keeps adding / rearranging features and I hope that, in the long term, this will not make the site too cumbersome and fiddly.

This is quite addictive, Researching my family and my husband's . It can be revealing. I would say you have to be careful and where possible double check when information has come from someone else looking into the same family and don't take it for granted they have the correct information, this half the fun and if it feels wrong it probably is.