Ancestry UK Heritage Plus 12 Month Membership $124.99. World Heritage 12 month membership available at 50% as well for $224.99.
UK Heritage Plus 12-Month Membership $124.99 (was $249.99) @ Ancestry Australia
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scampy on 01/01/2024 - 12:09 ancestry.com.au (230 clicks)
Last edited 05/01/2024 - 09:43 by 1 other user
Last edited 05/01/2024 - 09:43 by 1 other user
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Yeah, 12 months at 50% off is a bit more reaosnable. Full price is a but hefty.
Ive never has issues cancelling. There is literally a cancel option in the account settings.
Cancelling was easy, but on a 2 week trial period it was worded as though the plan would cancel immediately, rather than not renewing after the current period. Bit scummy when companies do that I feel, but manageable with some reminders (and to their credit you can opt into having them send one)
Why is there a subscription? My ancestry won't be changing over the next 12 months?
Also, I'm sceptical of these services due to all the hacking scandals and the selling of private information.
It's public information held in databases around the world.
Australian information includes information held with Births, Deaths and Marriages in your state or territory. It's an index and buying the certificate such as a birth certificate from the state and territory will tell you the parents and any previous issue (if any) of the person's parents in question. My experience with death certificates is they're not very accurate with surviviing people filling in the form guessing the information which may not be correct.
Also has publically available electoral roll information which includes names and addresses. Also includes information held in old directories such as White Pages which also includes names and addresses.
I never got it either, who would subscribe to this and to what end?
It's just how everything needs a subscription service these days, even Coles and Woolies etc. Seems to be the way every single corporation on earth has decided to go, famously BMW with you needing a subscription to use features that are, you know, in the car.
My wife is a keen genealogist and she never runs out of family branches to research and document, especially since she did the DNA thing
I did the Ancestry-dot-com DNA kit a few years ago, it's very interesting but I wish the information could cross companies. Would probably try this company if I didn't still get a cold sweat each time I receive an email titled "You have a DNA match to explore".
You can export your DNA file (which is in zip format) from Ancestry and upload it into MyHeritage but not the other way around.
https://www.dataminingdna.com/transfer-your-ancestry-dna-to-…
You can also export your GEDCOM family tree (.ged file extension) and upload it into MyHeritage.
You can do the same with the Geni.com, FamilyTreeDNA.com, GEDMatch.com, Familysearch.org, Wikitree.com
That's really good info, thanks. Think I might have to check some of those out, currently I've spent all my time on Ancestry.
Just some points to note:
-FamilySearch, Geni and Wikitree are collaborative systems where you can add to existing family trees or start your own branch
-FamilySearch and Wikitree are completely free.
-if you Google an ancestor's full name and year of birth you can often get hits from Ancestry, MyHeritage or Geni. Wrap the person's name in quotes. E.g "Fred John Bloggs" 1825 geni.com
-look for free genealogy resources via Google
-use Youtube to learn how to use genealogy websites and tools. A lot of very useful features are not obvious and are really easy to use once you know howThanks mate, I appreciate the info. Doing some searches now, some of the youtube vid's available are really good.
I genuinely cannot understand why they charge so much. Of course, there's a lot of development money ploughed into the product but surely you want as many people as possible on board in order to make it all function much, much better.
The huge majority of people cannot afford this product, but would probably get on board if it was affordable.
The dodgy thing with Ancestry's subscription is that anything you save to a person, you can't access again in the future unless you have an active subscription again. If someone really wants to build a family tree, they should just grab a one month subscription, put as much of the info together in that month, then export it all to use with something offline.
Or go to the library and access it for free. Saving everything and emailing it to yourself as you go. During COVID I accessed it from home but that's no longer available.
If you go to the library (or just connect to their wifi) and open ancestry library edition on your device, you should have access for 24 hours so you can go home and still use it. I'd say this works 99% of the time.
I'll try that thanks for the info. My tree needs a little more but not worth paying another $125 for the few bits of information I need.
Possibly cheaper via Canada, but I can only see 6 month plans. The World plan would be around AUD 72 for 6 months. Or via Sweden you can get 12 months of the World plan for AUD 145.
Not bad if you want the 12 month membership. I recently got the DNA done through MyHeritage for $59 + return shipping (~$23 from memory) and it came with one month free which they extended another month when I said I didn't want to pay for 12.
People complain online that MyHeritage and Ancestry is difficult to cancel but it's not.