Ancestry.com 29 January 2011 Reviewer: Charles from North Carolina, US
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Good Points, it has a tremendous amount of records, the most of any site I have subscribed to. Its online family tree is adequate and the best feature is the hints capability. It lacks many tools that Family Tree Maker software has, I.E. you cannot merge or manage duplicate information or persons. I often find that I have to download my tree as a gedcom, fix what I need and upload back to the website. I have subscribed to Ancestory for 3 years now and it continues to be the best so far, but also the most expensive. It's almost to the point that the average person can't afford it. I have many family members who rely on me to get information because of the subscription price.
Searching - I have to disagree with the review on searching by name or any other data. If you type in a name for search along with date and location, you will get thousands of names to search through, and they are not always what you typed. Oh you will likey get to the person you were looking for, after looking and going through 100's of names. It's very time consuming. Another example, if I type a persons name and location of Tennessee, I get hundreds of records that don't have that name or not from that state. It slows my research down. Overall, yes it's the best i have found out there, but it could definitely use some input from actual users.
In summary, I would recommend Ancestry.com to a friend.
