Ancestory websites

[The Batman]

Gday all.

Anyone ever used these websites to find family members from years gone by. Is there one that's better than the others??

Short but sweet. You guys would be doing me a huge favour.

[RedM]

I used to be really into this a few years ago. I think my best bet was I brought a family tree maker cd set and signed up to 'Ancestry'. I think it was a years subscription that covered uk and Ireland, I think you can get several different levels eg a month, 3 months etc and something like uk as I said or Europe or worldwide. 

Before I signed up I think there was a really good free site ran by the Church of the Latter-day Saints of all people, heavily biased to the US but I found out a lot for free before I subscribed to Ancestry.

i think it all depends on where your relatives are from. Unfortunately by searches drew a blank after a few generations due to quite a lot of my ancestors leading to Ireland, it seems quite a lot of records were lost in a huge fire in a records office and also there was a lot of  ahem, money being taken by local priests for registering children when born only for them to pocket the money without completing the paperwork.

I think you can view quite a lot of online cencus' for free too, if they are over 100 years old. Through the Ancestry subscription you had access to newer ones which were a great help.

also there are lots of places you can look up servicemen etc, I never looked into this as it didn't apply to me.

i guess it's all about what you know and who you can ask now to confirm. I spent many months searching and it was a fantastic feeling when you proved something, but oh so many dead ends.

one thing I would say is ask any relatives you have now about the past, I also left that too late. By the time I wanted to know my relatives had died or weren't capable of recalling, very sad.

warning, it's very addictive. Good luck.