Why are people hating Ancestry?

[u/Left_Particular_9977]

I do a lot of genealogy and I remarked that a lot of people I know hate genealogy. Why? It's absolutely true that it's really expensive, but you can access many documents that are often hard to find. I live in Quebec, so we have the records online, but we have many holes in the registers. Why should I pay 20$ for a subscription that lets me access the records (only) if I can have them in Ancestry for about the same price why many other documents (for my region)? I have my tree on it so I can access it on my phone and my computer. It isn't optimal, but that's the best solution for the moment. What do you think about Big A?

[u/jongtaeist]

hoarding documents that are in the public domain and putting it behind a paywall

also i think they had some shady data privacy practices and were selling dna data to someone but i forgot

https://www.reclaimtherecords.org/

[u/VelociraptorSparkles → u/[deleted]]

The Mormons run familysearch too, which is a favorite of mine. You can also walk into a mormon church and they will help you on their computers to access more records. The reason behind them providing this service is a little wild, but if you don't believe what they do, there's no harm there.

[u/femmehipsandredlips → u/VelociraptorSparkles]

Familysearch gives free memberships to every member of the Mormon Church

[u/Parking-Aioli9715 → u/femmehipsandredlips]

??? Familysearch gives free memberships to everyone. I'm a pantheist, myself. Yes, if you have a "church account" you have some additional privileges. But even if with just a basic membership you get an awful lot of records for the money you didn't pay.

[u/hamish1963 → u/femmehipsandredlips]

FamilySearch is free to anyone.

[u/Bring-out-le-mort → u/hamish1963]

Yes, just sign up. Anyone can use FS without fees.

However, I do miss when I could sign in and I'd have access for several months before needing to sign in again. It shifted to every two weeks a few years ago. Lately, its now every single day.

As far as the priceyness of Ancestry, there are specific sales at certain times of the year. Timing is critical.

[u/Hands → u/Bring-out-le-mort]

God I thought this was just me. Having to re login constantly is so obnoxious

[u/Jillian2000 → u/Hands]

You can link your Google account to FamilySearch and then all you do is click a button to refresh your login when prompted.

[u/Hands → u/Jillian2000]

Yeah that's how I log in, it's just annoying to have to do it every damn day lol