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Act fast! 50% off 6-month memberships. Offers end 6 Sept 2021 at 11:59 p.m. ET. Discount only applicable for 6-month subscriptions. Offers available for new and returning subscribers only and not for renewal of current subscriptions.
 
Ancestry runs this "special" all the time. This is news just like "20% off coupons for Bed Bath and Beyond" is news. :rolleyes:

Kurt
 
Check with your library. Many libraries have a subscription which you can use for research. They will log you in and you can search for as long as you have signed up.
 
About 5 years ago I needed a 3 generation family tree with ages and causes of death for genetic testing purposes. I hired a college professor I found on he Internet who put it together for me. I paid him somewhere between $1,200 and $1,400 (I don't remember exactly). He came back in 2 or 3 weeks with the tree and pictures of birth certificates, death certificates, immigration certificates and tomb stones. Any idea how long and how much this would have cost me if I did it myself using Ancestry.com, etc...

George
 
On Ancestry it wouldn't have cost you anything except the membership. It's time consuming, but it isn't hard.
 
bogey21 said:
About 5 years ago I needed a 3 generation family tree with ages and causes of death for genetic testing purposes. I hired a college professor I found on he Internet who put it together for me. I paid him somewhere between $1,200 and $1,400 (I don't remember exactly). He came back in 2 or 3 weeks with the tree and pictures of birth certificates, death certificates, immigration certificates and tomb stones. Any idea how long and how much this would have cost me if I did it myself using Ancestry.com, etc...

George
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A whole lot of time, which is more important than the money to me! I think you made the wise decision but that’s just my own personal opinion. I’m sure others would disagree.
 
bogey21 said:
About 5 years ago I needed a 3 generation family tree with ages and causes of death for genetic testing purposes. I hired a college professor I found on he Internet who put it together for me. I paid him somewhere between $1,200 and $1,400 (I don't remember exactly). He came back in 2 or 3 weeks with the tree and pictures of birth certificates, death certificates, immigration certificates and tomb stones. Any idea how long and how much this would have cost me if I did it myself using Ancestry.com, etc...

George
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I got a 5+ generation family tree through a relative that was into ancestry before the internet.
And www.23andme.com will give you 1,500 2nd and 3rd cousins !
 
Brett said:
I got a 5+ generation family tree through a relative that was into ancestry before the internet.
And www.23andme.com will give you 1,500 2nd and 3rd cousins !
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But, what would you do with all of them? ;)
 
My wife did 23nme and found a cousin that was adopted at birth, her aunt still refuses to ackowledge the daughter she had from an affair, big scandal…

I did ancestry test, it included 90 day free trial, I built as much of my tree as possible, back 5 generations. Then I realized they were all dead and it wasn’t much use, none were famous.


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DeniseM said:
On Ancestry it wouldn't have cost you anything except the membership. It's time consuming, but it isn't hard.
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Yeah, the college professor probably just went on Ancestry.com.:rolleyes:
 
"I sent my DNA to Ancestry. They said:
'I'm 20% Norwegian... and 80% Butter."
-- Louie Anderson, comedian
 
I helped a newly discovered second cousin find her grandparents. Her mother had been adopted in 1916, and they never knew her background. Using my family tree developed on Ancestry, plus the clues she had, I figured out who the grandparents had to be. She has living full first cousins.
 
In the 1980s and early 1990s I went to the Register House in Edinburgh Scotland to research my father's family tree. He was Scottish. This was before anything was available on the internet. Then, you could purchase a seat in front of the computer monitors connected to the main database for a half day or full day. This was my hobby while visiting family there. The Register House is a centralized genealogy research center for all of Scotland.

I sat next to geniologists who did this for a living, mostly for American or Canadian customers. I learned a lot speaking to them. All of them were not honest, some taking short cuts by guessing on ancestors, especially if the first name and surname were common. Especially if they were paid a flat fee for their work. It could take a half a day through a slow process of elimination to weed out incorrect ancestors when names are common. One wrong entry into the tree creates additional errors, if further research is based on the wrong entry.
 
bogey21 said:
Can you also find cause of death using Ancestry.com...

George
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Only if there is a death certificate associated with the individual that can be viewed. Those are pretty scarce. So generally, No.

Ancestry will let you track mainly births, marriages, and deaths. Census information can show relationships, where people were living, and where they came from. But it's very hit or miss. If someone wasn't on the census for that year, they're missing from the database.

Dave
 
The biggest thing Ancestry has done for my siblings and I is confirm our younger brother is not my father's son. This wasn't really a surprise, but all the parties who were involved or who would know are deceased. Our Mother was married multiple times, and had more than a few affairs during her single days. So learning she conceived my brother by another man while married to my (mostly absent) father wasn't much news. But it explains that we four siblings each have different fathers, and why we look quite different from each other, beyond our Mother's features that we each have in common. Once we had "the rest of the story" things became much more clear.

The thing about Ancestry is that you need to be very diligent to get the right spelling and dates on people, and you may have to work for it. A lot of data is open for interpretation, by people deciphering names on census records or headstones, for example. It's easy to mis-read a name, and if there is no other proof, it can allow misinformation to propagate down the line, continuing for a long time. My Mother's misspelled maiden name appears in a famous genealogy book that was published decades ago, and widely disseminated. I see her name misspelled the same way over and over again in certain family trees I see. Those who don't know or care will continue to report the incorrect name.

Dave
 
I looked myself up on Ancestry and I'm dead.

When we lived in a town outside a base where my dad was stationed, there was a man with my exact name on our street.

After graduating college, this individual was working for the company for which I started working, but in a different city and for a different division.

Our records are mingled.
 
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Just yesterday I had a conversation with my sister-in-law about her experience with Ancestry... she discovered (and shared) info that revealed long held family secrets and now many of her family members aren't speaking to her.
 
I used Ancestry to confirm that the guy my birth mother said was my birth father actually was (he is), by the both of us doing dna tests. I also have two family trees going back several generations - one for the adopted family, one for the birth family. I signed up under a 1/2 off offer last year, then went to Paypal and removed the recurring charge thinking that would be the end of it. Nope! When Ancestry saw the declined auto charge, they put through a new one! Then they refused to cancel and return my money. Started a case on Paypal the very same day the charge went through, and they gave me my money back. Ancestry still has not cut my access, and I've emailed them telling them about it. So now I have no ill feelings of having my current genealogy program linking and pulling something out that would normally be on a paid tier. They are one pricey service, especially when much of the benefit is from other users research.
 
They occasionally have free access periods where you can hit and run to get census data and military records. You kinda have to know enough about what you are looking for to zero in on the right data, but it is nice to get copies of the actual logs filled out at the time. While it may not show you are related to the queen of England, it is still cool to show a bit about your relatives in the time and places they lived.
 
Q:

Anyone printed out their family tree from ancestry or family search or made a copy of the records with old family photos to send to the local or state genealogy - historical society in the area that your ancestors were from. Did you make it into book form.
 
bogey21 said:
Can you also find cause of death using Ancestry.com...

George
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I see quite a few certificates that list cause of death but nothing very current.
 
DaveNV said:
Only if there is a death certificate associated with the individual that can be viewed. Those are pretty scarce. So generally, No.

Ancestry will let you track mainly births, marriages, and deaths. Census information can show relationships, where people were living, and where they came from. But it's very hit or miss. If someone wasn't on the census for that year, they're missing from the database.

Dave
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A full membership includes Newspapers.com and Fold3 for military service. I find the most helpful information from Census records, obituaries and draft forms. Marriage announcements in newspapers also help.
 
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