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.
{Just kidding, those folks at ancestry.com have no idea who I am.}