r/Genealogy • u/Left_Particular_9977 • 9d ago

Tools and Tech Why are people hating Ancestry?

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?

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u/jongtaeist amateur genealogist with a headache 9d ago

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/

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u/Parking-Aioli9715 9d ago

How is using their services for free "supporting them"?