One Great Family Reviews

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171 of 347 people found this review helpful

One Great Family says they have over 190 million unique entries in their database, and that they have removed duplicates and combined overlapping trees. I chose 10 names at random b. 1870 to 1970 from One Great Family. These were random, not in my family or any one state. I chose only names that showed parents. Then I searched for that person with one of those parents on Ancestry, setting the search for exact + phonetic matches.

Result: One Great Family did excellently! Ancestry found only 1 out of the 10 person + parent duos, Maude PLACKARD and her Mother Mary SNIDER:

Jon PLISOWSKI M= Marilyn COLLEY
Maude PLACKARD M= Mary Catherine SNIDER
Doris WEAGLE M= Evelyn Pearl FRAUSEL
Carol WERHAN M= Beulah Christine LUNDBY
Alice NOOYEN M= Angeline BORCHER
Tianna UMANN F= Phillip GLASSMAN /UMANN
Vito DiFABBI M= Antionette SPINO
Mary DiALBA M= Ann Delila WOOD
Leo KAARFAST M= Mathilde
Meyer KARPO F= KARPOWITZ

In summary, I would recommend One Great Family to a friend.

228 of 473 people found this review helpful

Is One Great Family the end-all solution for my family history research? Probably not. Since they don't own any actual source documents, you'll have to go elsewhere for those. While I love the way they display the family tree and the specific individual's family, I wouldn't use One Great Family as my primary records manager, either.

But, as someone who has a very robust family tree already, I have found that One Great Family has been an invaluable resource for getting me new leads to research. As any serious genealogist would agree, digging in and breaking through those brick walls is a lot easier if you have something to go from... a date, or a name (even if it's the wrong name) than if you have nothing at all. Using One Great Family has helped me fill in three "holes" in my family tree, including my great great grandfather, and I'm not done.

In summary, I would recommend One Great Family to a friend.