Ancestry.co.uk Reviews 

Finding my Morher in Laws Grandparents marriage, not in Ireland, not in America but in Liverpool.

I find Ancestry the most user friendly of the available family history sites.
I have been researching for over 5 years now and have gained insight into my family going back generations.
Although I have taken the DNA test, it has not, as yet found anybody I have been looking for.

Providing DNA results, access to official records & also to other peoples' family trees.
Families live during history, so going back in time you'll find adopted children, illegitimate children (sometimes their father is named, as mum was probably in service working for families (census records) or e.g. she met men on temporary employment in her area), as well as many more legitimate ones.
Also those parents who remarried upon the death of their other married one - so you'll find some children become stepchildren. You will find men who fought & survived, or were wounded or some even sadly died in battles & which battles they were.
Also which part of your ancestral family emigrated & to where!
Also you'll find families that had common Christian & family surnames that were passed down to the next generation - so you will need to check their dob times & places on the Ancestry records. Further research can also give you causes of deaths e.g. cholera, scarlet fever, polio etc. before official vaccinations came in & from epidemics in some cases!! Not all dobs & census records were recorded/kept from the early days,& some church records were lost.
Researching Family History can inspire you to go hunting to the areas your forbears came from, so you find their graves, the areas they lived in & it's history. Just enjoy yourself doing your family history even if it takes some time as it's Your Family that's important to you & Ancestry can help you do it.

Ancestry offer a good product which is continually improving BUT the major issue for me is DNA Matches. Don't join Ancestry expecting everything to unfold without effort - many who have taken DNA tests either have no tree; do not link their result to a tree or they do not respond when you try to contact them - which is VERY frustrating.
Additionally you may find trees that are relevant to your research BUT very often they are full of mistakes - because they have not checked against primary sources.
Beware of trees taking you back centuries - very often they are fanciful, to put it mildly!
Enjoy Ancestry - I do, BUT it is not a magic bullet!

Don't always follow hints as sometimes can lead to the wrong ancestor, but can also be helpful, to find children of ancestors.
Not linked DNA as yet, find it a little confusing

I have been with Ancestry for several years and have found so many Ancestors that I never knew I had. I had to start from the very beginning as both my parents and grandparents had passed away. I had little information of my own but with the help of Ancestry together with many hints I have been able to build a substantial tree back to my 14th great grand parents and so much more.

Fascinating results from DNA matching. Well know in my family that a g grandfather was born "out of wedlock" (quote from family papers) but a local man stepped up and married our pregnant gg greatmother. I thought we'd never find the missing gg grandfather but DNA shows close matches with the descendants of the brothers of the supposedly unrelated local man. So he may not be our gg grandfather but one of his family is.

One of the two must have websites for UK genealogy

Ancestry has many records available to help in your research, although it is at the more expensive end of the market [and many records are only available with additional subscriptions]. The continual pushing of AI is irritating, and Ancestry has a habit of introducing "improvements" without warning - and with no recourse to go back to previous formats. Ancestry is a good starting point, but for people just starting out on their research journey I would say be very wary of accepting "hints" and other people's trees without double checking the accuracy of them. I have found it to be less helpful in research than it was a few years ago and the help section is not very helpful - especially the AI bot! Personally, I think Ancestry is less of a market leader than it was a few years ago, and would consider a different site if it was easier to transfer all my research over.

The information I needed was at my fingertips and I was able to confirm all the research my grandfather had done in the 1950s. I have been able to add more details and extend my family tree.

I like the additional records that are added frequently, this helps when you get stuck when searching for fine details. I am researching booth mine and my wife's history and have uncovered some interesting and unexpected facts. I have reached some dead ends, in particular my great grandfather who went to America and has seemed to Vanish!
I like the boat records as they have proved useful for tracing my grandfathers travels.
I think the membership fees are a little expensive, especially when a lot of records require addition fees like Newspapers and Fold 3 for military records. It is a bit frustrating when the details are there but you cannot see it unless you paid extra!
Overall I am happy with my membership, I like the hints feature and the DNA matches.

it just does the job, full of new possibility's every month

I had my DNA tested on Ancestry because I was trying to find who my father was. I was adopted and had already found my birth mother. She gave me details about my father; his name, age, ethnicity, but I just could not find him. I was about to give up and told myself that I would keep my subscription for one more month then that would be it. For my mental health, I had to give up my obsession to find him. Then, a few days later, up popped a match 2300cM with the same surname as my father. The rest, as they say, is history.

Ancestry makes it fun to discover the names of your ancestors, the layout is easy to follow and if you hae heard a bit about your family it is very easy to go back hundreds of years. I have researched my own family and that of my husband. Both families are traceable back to the 1500s

I find it interesting to look at my ancestors and discover family members I never knew . I really found it so fascinating when I did my DNA

It confirmed some of what I thought about my heritage. I live in Canada and found it difficult to send a kit to my sister in the US. I ended up doing it through Amazon

I have tried to use other sites where post marriage names take precedence over birth names. Save your sanity by taking Ancestry's line with this.

Unless you are a Nobel Prize winner for work on molecular biology, give thanks for Ancestry's high level DNA tools. Life is too short for attempts to understand what Haplogroup R-FTF92377 might mean.

I've been a member of 4 different genealogy sites but Ancestry has consistently given me the best results as well as being easy to use, and integrates well with Family Tree Maker.

The hints help but can be confusing at times. I haven't got a clue how to read or understand my DNA.

Sometimes I get hints that when I follow them bring some surprises. I really love being able to trace my family. I have always been curious about family since young.