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- Annual membership $5 per month billed annually at
$59.95
- Quarterly membership $6.65 per month billed
quarterly at $19.95.
- Monthly membership £9.95 per month billed
monthly.
OneGreatFamily.com offers a free 7 day
trial but it requires a credit card to sign up. Your card
will not be charged until the 7 days are up so if you
wish to cancel you should do so before this period
expires otherwise your information will automatically be
preserved with a basic subscription of $75.95 per
annum.
- OneGreatFamily is a powerful genealogical database
built and developed by amateur genealogists all over
the world.
- Be part of, and contribute to, this growing online
genealogical community.
- Automated continual search engine updates your
family tree constantly.
- Be safe in the knowledge that even when you're not
working on your family tree, OneGreatFamily is!
- Email notifications when new family members are
added to your family tree.
- View your family tree in its entirety and zoom in
on particular sections for a closer look
- Members from 170 countries add data every day,
expanding the collection of names, photos, videos,
biographies and more.
- Join other users to work on common elements on your
family trees.
- A Surname Index makes it easier to see if your name
is located in the database.
- Extensive search functions, both automatic and
manual.
- Learning centre helps develop your research
skills.
- Monthly e-Zine filled with interesting articles on
genealogical research.
- Read about the success stories of other members of
OneGreatFamily.
- FAQs and Online Help supports you as you
research.
- Excellent Technical Support.
OneGreatFamily allows users to experience almost all
of the benefits of full membership for free, for a seven
day trial. For the free 7 days you get:
- All data, including birth, death, marriage,
baptism, confirmation, barmitzva, christening, and
more.
- Complete family tree information, including
descendents, siblings and ancestors.
- Access to all notes, biographies, multimedia and
citations available.
- Round-the-clock automated searching.
- Comparison of every person in your tree against
every person in OneGreatFamily.
- Email when matches are found.
- Full access to data from automated searching.
- Full on-line backup of your family tree.
- Full use of Genealogy Browser, software that makes
it easy to collect and organize your family tree.
- Weekly newsletter including tips on traditional as
well as internet genealogy.
After the seven day trial is over, you must upgrade
to full membership in order to continue to access the
site (and your stored family tree) and benefit from
automated updating of your family tree.
Searching using OneGreatFamily is really simple.
OneGreatFamily performs continual searches, 24 hours a
day, on your family tree and informs you by email when
new relatives are found. They are automatically added to
your family tree which will continually grow as a result.
You can also perform a manual search, and search by the
following criteria:
- Parents
- Spouse
- Children
- Siblings
- Birth Date
- Death Date
- Baptism/Confirmation/Barmitzvah Date
- Residences/Locations
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 their data as new matches are
found. Whilst this is not ideal for everyone, we
thought it was an innovative and exciting feature. The
site does also offer the option to manually search
through a number of different genealogical records to
add to your family tree yourself, and this will no
doubt please the more traditional genealogist.
The community feel of OneGreatFamily is certainly a
great feature of the site, with amateur and
professional genealogists from all over the world (170
different countries) contributing to a wide-reaching
genealogical community. The family tree software
featured on the site allows users to view vast family
trees with many thousands of entries at a distance, or
zoom onto a particular individual to examine the entry
and its associated attachments. Users can "attach" a
range of materials to each entry, such as biographies,
photos, video clips and family stories to enrich the
family tree experience. Because all users contribute to
the general pool of information, the materials added by
other users to common ancestors are automatically added
to your tree so that you can benefit from their
research, too. All additions to your family tree are
listed in a notification email that is delivered to you
on a regular basis.
Whilst an automatically generating family tree is an
exciting option, we can't help but feel that users are
reliant on other users' active membership in order to
benefit from this feature. That is, your
family tree will only update if other users provide
data which matches, in some way, with entries you have
already made. Membership of OneGreatFamily therefore,
is a bit of a lottery unless you are prepared to put in
a lot of the legwork yourself. That said, we really
can't see the benefit of joining OneGreatFamily over
another site (such as our highest rated site in this
category, Ancestry.com) if you do not intend to take
advantage of the automatic updating service.
OneGreatFamily.com does not have access to a very large
number of genealogical data outside of that which has
been entered by other users, meaning that manual
searches are also dependent on the research of other
users worldwide.
If you're serious about generating a full family tree,
or you're conducting genealogical research as a
pastime, then this site is perhaps not for you. We
can't help but feel that the automatically updating
family tree, while perfect for some users, takes a lot
of the fun out of family history research! If you want
to search manually, and construct your tree gradually,
we recommend another site in our top ten, such as Ancestry.com or Genealogy.com.
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