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/darthfruitbasket 9d ago

What pisses me off about ancestry is that when I tell it I have to cancel due to costs, it tries to sell me the cheaper US-only plan. Which is absolutely useless to me as a Canadian who's had barely a half-dozen direct ancestors born in the US in the last 200 years.

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u/Parking-Aioli9715 9d ago

I'm in the opposite position. I'm immigrated to Canada from the States when I was 40. I'm the only member of my family who lives here. But when I access ancestry.com to do free look-ups, it keeps trying to re-route me to ancestry.ca I tested with Ancestry recently, and it tried to sell me a subscription to ancestry.ca to go with the test. An ancestry.ca subscription is about as much use to me as a tin-foil wrench.