Ancestry.co.uk is our favorite UK-based genealogy website! Read the reviews and user reviews here to find out more about Ancestry.co.uk.
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Joining Fee:
Ancestry.co.uk offers two membership packages, both of which come with a free 14-day trial - though you will need to hand over your credit card details to access the free trial. You may cancel your subscription at any point within the free trial period without being billed. The packages on offer are as follows...
UK Membership:
Annual membership amounting to £6.66 per month - billed in one payment of £79.77
Monthly membership amounting to £9.95 per month.
Included in this membership is:
Unlimited access to all UK record collections on Ancestry.co.uk
Connection into the world's largest online family history community
Hints in your tree when we discover details about your ancestors
All the tools you need to build, grow and share your family tree online
The ability to upload photos, documents and stories to your tree
Shared access to your tree for family members.
World Membership:
Annual membership amounting to £12.50 per month - billed in one payment - of £199.99 - this is a special introductory price for new members only.
Monthly membership amounting to £24.95 per month.
World membership offers the same features as UK membership with the addition of the following:
All new worldwide content added to Ancestry.co.uk each week
Unlimited access to all records from the US , Canada , Australia and more
You can also pay as you go with 12 record views for 14 days at a charge of £14.95 or 10 record reviews for 14 days with a prepaid voucher.
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Features of Ancestry:.
Ancestry.co.uk allows you to search for records about your ancestors using:
Historical records
Family Trees
Stories & Publications
Photos & maps
You can also browse by location by selection of a region or country.
OneWorldTree gathers family trees and family history records for millions of people, analyzes the birth, death and marriage data and then displays the most probable matches for your ancestors.
On Ancestry.co.uk you can bring your family stories to life by creating beautiful pages that showcase your documents, photos and charts. You can print your pages at home or order a professionally printed, coffee-table quality book.
Display up to 9 generations of your family tree in a poster suitable for framing.
Ancestry.co.uk provides an Ancestry Community page where you can share research or ideas with other Ancestry members or contact those members with research interests similar to yours.
There are Message Boards which are public postings from members of the community about research localities and surnames. There are currently over 17 million posts on more than 161,000 boards.
Ancestry.co uk has a DNA testing facility whereby you can discover your genetic genealogy simply by ordering a test kit and sending your DNA sample back to Ancestry.co.uk. Who knows, you may be a direct descendant of Queen Elizabeth I!
A new feature on Ancestry.co.uk is the learning centre which is perfect for the beginner. Friendly videos are available which can make a somewhat daunting task feel simpler and easier. Perfect if you're researching in the early hours of the morning and need an encouraging voice in your ear!!
Sometimes you find a record that might be the right one, but aren't sure where to put it, or want more time to evaluate it. Ancestry.co.uk has a "shoebox" facility which may save you time and trouble. Save the record to the shoebox and you can come back to it later.
Ancestry.co.uk's Member Connections uses powerful technology with robust searching and matching capabilities to help you learn more about your ancestors with the help of other Ancestry members. Just click on Ancestry's Member Connections icon wherever you see it throughout the site and connect with other Ancestry members who share your research interests and activities.
If you prefer to be anonymous when somebody contacts you, you may also select Ancestry's anonymous Connection Service. This service keeps personal information, like your name and email address, private in your communications with other Ancestry members.
Ancestry.co.uk received a "Gold Award" rating in a recent review by "Web User", one of the UK 's leading internet magazines. Ancestry's rich tree building and content features (photos, stories, personal profiles etc.) as well as extensiveness of records and ease of search were singled out in the review as being particularly impressive.
Learn the origins of your family name and those of your ancestors using Ancestry.co.uk's Family Facts feature. The stories surrounding the origins of their surnames are often fascinating and make for very good reading.
You can use Ancestry.co.uk's Historical Records database showing the Royal Naval Division Casualties of The Great War, Great Britain, 1914-1924.
Search the new World War 1 Medal Rolls Index Card Collection (1914-1922), the most complete listing of individuals who fought in the British Army in WWI, containing approximately 90% of soldiers' names.
The first part of this collection contains the records for approximately 2.1 million people, which is approximately half of the total collection. The second half of this collection (which is due to be released later on this year) cover a wide range of surnames from all alphabetical ranges and can be searched by first and last name and Corps, Unit or Regiment.
The Ancestry international network
Ancestry.co.uk is part of a global network of 8 Ancestry websites - and growing - including Ancestry.cm in the US , Ancestry.com.au in Australia Ancestry.ca in Canada , Ancestry.de in Germany , Ancestry.it in Italy , Ancestry.se in Sweden and Ancestry.fr in France .
5 billion searchable names
15 million Ancestry site users
10.4 million unique site visitors each month
450 million page views per month
500 employees worldwide
4 .9 million member trees
5.6 million photographs uploaded.
Joining Ancestry.co.uk:
Joining Ancestry.co.uk really couldn't be easier. You just enter your first and last names and your email address.
Performing a Search on Ancestry.co.uk:
A basic search to Ancestry.co.uk allows you to search by the following parameters:
First and middle names
Last name
Birth year
Death year
Birth country
Death country
A more advanced search allows you to search by the following criteria:
All of the above
Residences
Relatives
Marriage year
Key words
Searching for your Ancestors between 1911 and 1983? :
When searching for Birth, Marriage or Death records between 1911 and 1983 you'll need to do some additional searching on the index page. Your search will direct you to the first and last names on the page your ancestor will appear.
To locate the required page, just select the relevant name range between which your ancestor's last name lies and scan down the page to find them.
Searching for Ancestors before 1911 or after 1983?
For Births, Marriages and Deaths recorded before 1911 or after 1983, your search will take you to the exact record on the page.
Editor's Verdict:
In our opinion Ancestry.co.uk is particularly beneficial and relatively inexpensive to those who research primarily in the UK . Those who need greater coverage of the world in their searches would be advised to use Ancestry.com, which is also part of the MyFamily.com network.
Bearing in mind that building a family tree can be a long and sometimes frustrating process, then we would recommend that you spend a little extra on a quality dependable service like Ancestry.co.uk.
One of the features we liked most was the information on origins of surnames such as "Turner" which means a maker of wooden, bone or metal objects, or even an official in charge of tournaments in the Middle ages as well as a guard in a watch tower in Southern Germany ? Nearly 30% of all Turners in England and Wales were living in either Lancashire or Yorkshire around the turn of the 20th Century - all fascinating stuff when you're trying to trace your family roots.
The site is very easy to use and has FAQs and email support - an invaluable service for the novice genealogist.
All in all we would unhesitatingly recommend Ancestry.co.uk to anyone wishing to find their roots in the UK .
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