Ancestry.co.uk Reviews 

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.

The DNA results helped me uncover who my grandfather was as when my mum passed away I found she only had her mums name on her birth certificate. As my husband also did his DNA I was able to find why my deceased father in law was born in NY as he always maintained he was a Lancashire man.

No need for so many duplicated buttons to navigate to DNA results on homepage, only ONE offering one click access is needed.
Homepage too cluttered, navigation round site is poor and confusing, updates cause far too many errors and pages unavailable.

i think it's great discovering the family tree, however ancestry could be more helpful by helping the person involved by showing him or her where they are going wrong without additional charges being imposed by them and yes i do need help in putting my tree in order!!!

My quest with Ancestry started bacause my father never knew his father. His mother told him from an early age he had passed away. My father had died in a car wreck and never talked about his family. I was determined to find out who his father was. All I had was my fathers 1934 birth certificate as a starting point. It took two years of research to discover my grandfather and his family. Also found the cottage my father was born in and visited the cottage. The owner of the cottage had all the deeds going back a couple of hundred years so I found when my great grandmother had bought the cottage. That started an oddessy discovering my fathers uncles and descendants.
Through Ancestry I have found and communicated with relations in the US, Canada, Australia and Jamaica.
Ancestry has made the process of discovering family lineage relivively easy albeit starting with scant information. It is addictive and highly recommended.

A Murder, a Saxon hoard and several vicars. On a whim joined ancestry during covid and have found some amazing stories of my family. Also found brave 1st Worls War soldiers, a drunk who went to jail for neglecting his family and how my family migrated from other areas of the UK for work in the developing industrial city of Manchester. Spookily my great grandfather was born one street away from where I live in a beautiful town and I didn't know I was a local. Ancestry should be used in schools as it's so fascinating. Still hetying to grips with some of the resources but love how you can contact others who have mutual family members to discover the links.

After years of trying to unravel my father’s history and looking for a birth certificate. I had success and unlocked some of the mystery . Unfortunately he is no longer with us .

I ALWAYS FIND WHAT I NEED TO KNOW ON ANCESTRY IT IS VERY HELPFUL IN FINDING OUT ABOUT YOUR PAST WITH HINTS VERY HELPFUL

I have been with Ancestry since initially in 2001 for a couple of years and then rejoined 2004. I have six tree’s as I have helped family by also doing their tree’s also I have done both mine, my son’s and my partners DNA. I have been in contact with several cousins and we have help each other with finding information. Which is the benefit of this site you may have gone down a line which helps several other people and they may have gone down a line you need help with. Also the amount of records on Ancestry world wide is phenomenal.

The matches have proofed particularly helpful in untangling a very complicated story and revealed close family that we knew nothing about.

Very poor service. So little is given now on the basic subscription (£100) that I can see very little compared to the service of 5 and more years ago.
I wouldn't recommend to anyone but I keeo it so that I can view my family tree.

There are many records available on here and I have been a member for more than 20 years so they must have been doing something right. However what really gets on my nerves is when they change how they present the records and the latest one is the worst. Who ever thought that this is an improvement is very wrong and I am thinking of going to another company after all this time.

I've been a member for quite a few years now and it's not cheap but works out cheaper than buying credits to find information. There are pitfalls to be aware of, for example Thrulines takes information from other trees and depends on them being correct which in my experience I've found quite often they aren't. I've recently started paying for Pro and that's been invaluable as have the videos. Through Pro I was able to cluster shared DNA matches with a very high DNA match to myself and discovered that it was an illegitimate child of my uncle, something that will go with me to my grave as my cousin is still alive. I've learnt so much from the seminars. Being able to message other people who you may share DNA with is good - if they bother to answer you which they often don't but I have spoken to some distant relatives through that, who I do still speak to today. My tree now contains over 2500 ancestors and I'm still going but I always try to verify each and every one I add to my tree to make sure they really are my ancestors. I also subscribe through Ancestry to the Newspaper articles and have found some very interesting facts through that. I've been able to discover relatives and have found death notices that give information about next of kin. Very useful. I did my DNA through Ancestry also. The site is easy to negotiate. The home page gives lots of tips and hints. Once you start your tree there are different ways of looking at your work, horizontal, vertical and in the round which is really good for finding out where gaps are in grandparents. I still haven't used everything that the Web site offers. There's message boards and people will help if they can. If someone is as interested and fascinated in family history as I am then go for it. I've found a bigamist, relatives who died in the workhouse, relatives who spent time in prison for debt and for concealing a child's body. I've got relatives who went to Australia in the convict ships and I've even got a few Sirs and an Earl in the dim and distant past.

I have been with ancestry since 2007. So has my sister, and other family members. We have just learned so much that we never knew before. The constant help and advice that Ancestry gives is invaluable. Why I first came to ancestry, was because I had an accident? Plus or because I was going to have, a long recovery. My sister suggested, Ancestry she was already a member. I don't go online every day, or week. However, when I do, I am amazed, yet again, about new details, and people. It's the best money I've ever spent. Together, as a family we have learned so much about our ancestry. That really matter.

I love it but a little complicated at times.

I have been using Ancestry now for 20 years - and it is unrivalled. Over the years I have also used the likes of Geni and My Heritage, and they don't come close. All have their uses, but Ancestry prevails, by far.

The web-based version is much better to use than the app. Even using the web-based version there are problems with "frames" on Windows machines with less than a 14" display. The vertical scroll bar is not visible on Netbooks. This makes it difficult to use the compare feature to see if the search result matches the majority of your own record.
Ancestry itself is a brilliant service. Since 2019, I have created an Allen Family Tree that now has 3,000 entries: going back to my ancestors born in the 1720s on both of my parents' families side.

I have been a member of Ancestry for a number of years. I have discovered so much about my family using the many records which were out of reach when I started researching. I discovered a link to a branch of my family we knew nothing about through my DNA result. The hints have also been a valuable tool in progressing my research further. I would highly recommend Ancestry to anyone researching their family tree.