ancestry.com

I think ancestry.com is one of the greatest wonders of the digital age.  There are a lot of websites out there for genealogy.  Many of them are good.  Many of them cost money.  Of all the good, money-costing websites, ancestry.com is my favorite.  {Well, except for scotlandspeople.gov.uk – but that website is very location specific.  I’m talking about my favorite of all the whole world websites.}

If you spend much time on genealogy then you are probably well versed in the delights of ancestry.com.  If you are new to this genealogy world I suggest you give ancestry a try.  They offer free two week trials or even better, visit a local family history center and try it out for free.

I could spend a long time giving you a tour of ancestry.  Instead I am going to bottom line this for you – I love the record collections and I love the tree feature.  There is plenty of other good stuff, but I spend most of my time on my tree and digging through the records.

Things I love about my ancestry tree:

• I can share it with my family.
• I can choose to make it public or private.
• I can add photos, documents, video and audio.
• Those little green hints that they mention on the commercials are awesome – not perfect – but awesome.
• I can attach records I find directly to a person in the tree.
• The functions of the tree are very user friendly and fast to execute.
• I can search directly from a person in my tree and then alter the search parameters as I go to change the results.
• It’s mine.  No one can mess it up.

Things I love about the record collections on ancestry:

• There are gazillions of records.
• They constantly add to it.
• Ancestry acquires a wide variety of records.
• There are records for every location I have ever searched.
• If I find an error in the indexing, I can submit a corrected entry.
• The catalog contains record collections that are not indexed, or are partially indexed.  This means collections are available more quickly, you just might have to do a little more digging, like searching a microfilm on your computer – LOVE IT!

I will have lots more to say about my favorite website in the future.  But for now I will say, I looooovvvveeee ancestry.com.  It’s my favorite.  Try it out.  Tell them I sent you.