Ancestry.co.uk Reviews 

Ancestry pulls disproportionally American punters. The latter are generally less rigorous in research and ignorant of European geography. Nevertheless the company is valuable due to its database size. I am able to evaluate new offerings and occasionally confirm or refute prejudicies.

Easy to use, extremely helpful hints & excellent information.

I have learnt so much about my family's experience over the years, but it hasn't been cheap.
DNA in particular has opened many doors.

Budding Author:
I felt so inspired by all of the stories, facts and historical events I had unearthed in my ancestry research, that I wrote a novel! ‘Ancestral Threads’ became the obvious title and follows the lives of three families over a 300 year period. Without ’Ancestry’ this might never have been possible.

Subscription is expensive, though the site is relatively easy to use

I have researched my Family History for over 20 years.I love looking at the hints & tips & have gained some really good results. When your History goes back nearly four hundred years you don't expect to find a great dea, but when you do it is an absolute delight.

Really dislike constant stream of emails to take add ons.

Ancestry is a brilliant site. Tad expensive but you get what you pay for. I have expanded my "trees" immensely plus being able to "flesh" it out a bit which makes it more interesting.
A word of caution--try to backup all your findings as people can jump on to your tree with only the whisper of a connection

Finding out about my grand parents and ancestors, my grandfather and great uncle in the first war.

They send a lot of information relating to near relatives who I have met, and unnecessary information relating to articles in newspapers which are incorrect as I have personal knowledge or original books and information handed down to me as a direct descendant. It appears they do not have records prior to 1800 to assist me in tracing my direct relatives. I am no interested in relations with distant cousins,as I am only interested in tracing back to direct relatives with the same surname as my father and mother.

I have managed to find my unknown American grandad and my husband's grandad since I joined Ancestry. I administer several trees and have become completetly addicted with it.

Mungovan is a very unusual Surname. Growing up I knew my grandfather's siblings all went to Buffalo New York. It is interesting to find out what happened to them and the variations in spelling of the name.

The amount of information I have found amount my family is incredible. I have a fully verified tree which stretches back to the War of the Roses in some places - admittedly with quite a lot outside verification but many people, like me, have added the evidence to their tree and now share it with others

Ancestry provides a very good set of tools to get you going. Be warned, though, that the hints are just that, they do not always belong to your tree . You need to dig deep , sometimes, to get an accurate picture.
One of the most useful resources, where available, is the original Parish Registers. You will sometimes find missing links by going through them page by page ( starting from a known point).

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.