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Ancestry.com |
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Ancestry.com is our No. 1 choice in
genealogy websites. It can't be beaten for its extensive and
comprehensive data and indeed many other genealogy sites use the
Ancestry.com search facility on their own sites in order to take
advantage of their huge database. While Ancestry.com is not the
cheapest website available in this category, the quality of service
that you receive as a member, as well as the unbeaten quality and
quantity of information ensures it is by far the best value for money
of all of the sites we have reviewed...
>> Read the Full Review of
Ancestry.com
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Ancestry.co.uk |
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Ancestry.co.uk is the UK subsidiary of the world-leading genealogy site, Ancestry.com. If you're a UK user,
membership of Ancestry.co.uk is certainly an excellent option in terms
of both value, and providing access to a wide range of resources with
which to research family history. With a 14-day free trial, we
certainly think that there's little to lose in checking out
Ancestry.co.uk, and seeing what it has to offer...
>> Read the Full Review of
Ancestry.co.uk
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Ancestry.com.au |
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It should be noted that Ancestry.com.au is the Australian version of the US Ancestry.com genealogy website, and as such has many of the same features. Just as we would recommend Ancestry.com as our No. 1 choice to any US citizen wishing to research his/her family tree, we would recommend Ancestry.com.au as our No. 1 choice to any Australian citizen wishing to do the same. Ancestry.com.au, Australia's most popular family history site, offers members access to 800 million names.
>> Read the Full Review of
Ancestry.com.au
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Genealogy.com |
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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 site focuses mostly upon US users,
and as a result it's offerings for users outside of the US are limited,
even with the most expensive membership option...
>> Read the Full Review of
Genealogy.com
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GenesReunited.co.uk |
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Genes Reunited 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 UK users
to only family members who appear on British records...
>> Read the Full Review of GenesReunited.co.uk
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RootsWeb.com |
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Roots Web is a
free site offering you links to many resources of information around
the web. RootsWeb.com is part of Ancestry.com, and since RootsWeb is a
free service, you can expect to find banner ads on most pages, many of
which re-direct to its parent site at Ancestry.com. We found that some
of these flashing banners get a little annoying at times when you're
trying to concentrate on performing a search and it's sometimes hard to
distinguish a banner ad from a legitimate link. With that said, for
many users, the fact that the site is free will more than make up for
these little annoyances...
>> Read the Full Review of
RootsWeb.com
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KindredKonnections.com |
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Kindred Konnections 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, it's 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 site,
especially if you're new to online genealogy...
>> Read the Full Review of KindredKonnections.com
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FamilySearch.org |
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FamilySearch.org is a family history and genealogy website supported and sponsored by
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The service offered by
the site, in terms of access to genealogical records and the ability to
search through census information is provided free of charge to all
public users. Like other sites which offer free services, the site is a
little difficult to navigate at times, and it is occasionally difficult
to know what records to search and when...
>> Read the Full Review of
FamilySearch.org
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OneGreatFamily.com |
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One Great Family 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 their data as new matches are found. Whilst this is not ideal
for everyone, we thought it was an innovative and exciting feature...
>> Read the Full Review of OneGreatFamily.com
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WorldVitalRecords.com |
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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 it's short lifetime, the site has attained a number
of awards for excellence in the genealogy industry (notably from
Genealogy magazine, Alexa and 101 Best Family Websites). With unlimited
access to more than a billion different record entries, spanning more
than 11 thousand different databases, the chances of success on this
website are pretty high...
>> Read the Full Review of WorldVitalRecords.com
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