Reviews of the Best Genealogy Sites

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Our top 10 list below summarizes what we consider to be the best Genealogy Sites around, while our buying guide gives you useful advice on what to look for, and what to avoid, when making your choice.

The menu on the right links to our detailed editor's review for each genealogy site. Alongside each editor's review you'll also find user reviews (as well as screenshots and videos if they're available) to help you make the right choice.


Editor's Top 10 Buying Guide
 
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Ancestry.com has, for many years, been at the forefront of the internet genealogy market, providing a comprehensive and excellent quality service for its users. There can be no doubt that Ancestry.com is the finest website available for the family tree or family history enthusiast - whether beginner or expert. Researching your family history, and generating a complete family tree...

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Ancestry.co.uk is the UK subsidiary of the world-leading genealogy site, Ancestry.com. Ancestry.com (our No. 1 rated site in this category) has for many years, been at the forefront of the Internet genealogy market, providing a comprehensive and excellent quality service for its users. Users of Ancestry.co.uk have access to all of the same, high quality materials as users of...

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Ancestry.com.au is the Australian subsidiary site of Ancestry.com, the market leader in US online genealogy. Users of Ancestry.com.au have access to all of the same high quality materials and features as users of its parent site, they simply access it through the Australian portal, Ancestry.com.au. Because of this, we would recommend Ancestry.com.au to our Australian users as the perfect...

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Archives.com is a relatively new service that offers family history and genealogy enthusiasts access to some of the most developed and advanced tools available in the online genealogy market. The focus of articles in the New York Times, Forbes.com, FamilyTree.com and the Wall Street Journal, it’s no surprise that Archives.com is rapidly growing and attracting new users every day....

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As a partner site of Ancestry.com, Genealogy.com has access to many of the same features that are enjoyed by members of our No. 1 rated site in this category. With more than 170 million names in collective, merged family trees and with more than 250,000 new records added each week, this site certainly has a lot to offer. The...

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GenesReunited.co.uk is a sister site to the hugely popular FriendsReunited.co.uk, part of an international group of sites which dominate the family online-industry market. GenesReunited.co.uk is a UK based site, offering access to a range of research records from UK sources, but unfortunately offers no international records whatsoever. This is a little disappointing, as it limits the search opportunities of...

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World Vital Records was established in 2006 by several of the key members of the original Ancestry.com team. With this pedigree, it's unsurprising that WorldVitalRecords is a real up-and-coming player in the world of online genealogy. Even in its short lifetime, the site has attained a number of awards for excellence in the genealogy industry (notably from Genealogy magazine,...

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The Origins Network is a premier collection of genealogical sites focusing on providing source material for users from the UK and Ireland. The OriginsNetwork is in a unique position, with links with a number of genealogical organisations, such as the Society of Genealogists, the National Library of Ireland, and the Borthwick Institute for Archives allowing exclusive online access to...

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KindredKonnections.com is a site on a considerably smaller scale than those in our top 5 list. As much as we think this site does have something to offer to a certain market, its appearance is a little off-putting. With a mass of links and menu options littered around the home page, it can get pretty difficult to navigate the...

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OneGreatFamily.com is a unique site offering users the opportunity to take a little more of a backseat role in the development and research of their family tree. The selling point of OneGreatFamily is that the site operates an automatic updating function, meaning that users can enter the information they know about their family tree and the site continually updates...

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