A Genealogists' Love-Hate Relationship - Ancestry.com

Here is a quick description of a genealogists' love-hate relationship with ancestry.com
These are my views ONLY - while I have found many genealogists who agree, the words and opinions that I state are mine alone.
I am not completely bashing Ancestry.com - I just disagree with alot of their practices.

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• Family
• History
• Ancestry
• Tree
• Love-Hate
• Relationship
• Genealogy
• Ancestors

[neutralda]

Ancestry $79 kits were nice

Today Family Builder offers the lowest price kits at $59

[StrokMcHaggis]

I have to agree with your views on the One World Tree. To me it just seems like a catalogue of errors. Half of the trees on there I'm betting are completely sourceless, compiled from online sources which are full of errors. The whole idea of the One World Tree turns a well researched tree of yours and mine for example into a joke.

I don't trust anything that comes out of that tree at all. It's interesting to look at, but nearly always wrong. :(

[debsmad]

Stumbled across this older video today and love it because I am currently insanely angry and frustrated with Ancestry.com. I thought they were THE site for genealogy and was excited to finally open a paid account, and for what? I'm finding NOTHING useful there. It just keeps referring me to the same things . . . census records and birth/death indexes. I had better luck on free sites!!

~Deb

[Escondido123]

I know you want to become a teacher and that will pay the rent, but you should get a degree in genealogy. I started young too but I still haven't had any formal education. I hope to change that in the next two years. J.Paul - Escondido, CA. P.S. I know this is one of your old videos - great job!

[roder51]

The biggest crooks and liars on the planet. They probably sleep with Microsoft. Do not trust or believe a thing that comes out of Ancestry.com I was on there just yesterday and tried to leave a message for one of the members in the list. Ancestry wouldn't let me unless I took out a trial paid membership. I won't give those greed mongers a dime.

[337camo]

My family is very difficult to look up. We have alot of Jrs and our names, for the most part, are very common names. There is some bulls*** that i dont believe. For example, according to Ancestry.com iam related to Winston Churchill (British P.M) and Peregrine White (1st European born in the US) I just dont really believe it. I will add though, true or not, i find it interesting/fun to attempt and find where i came from. Iam German, Bohemian (Czech), and a whole lot of British!

[anoldladyify]

@lmdw  They discontinued Ancestry World Tree but they still have One World Tree and believe me it is trash.

[anoldladyify]

One World Tree is trash.

[Cuah123]

HA I'm R1b U106 L48, mothers fathers are I1 Anglo Saxons, mothers mothers fathers are J2a4b1* M92 Aegean, mothers are mtdna D...a mexican with mostly Nordic/German ancestors...go Normans and Crusaders

[parafleet]

"You don't have to know what you're looking for. You only have to start looking." This is Ancestry.com's ad slogan. It sounds like "just give us your money for no reason" to me.

American consumers, we must be smarter than everyone thinks we are.

[levanyzzuf]

I don't take issue with any of the things you do. I understand that when I make the tree public, the information and photos I put up can be used by anyone for any purpose at any time. I rarely ever cross lines with One World Tree. But I do hate it when other users sloppily connect my tree with theirs without really considering what they're doing.