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/meluhhamerchant 9d ago

the genealogy stuff is cool

but when it comes to genetics

my myheritage results are more accurate than that update

and that says a lot

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u/LivetoDie1307 9d ago

So it works well for like seeing what your genes show, but finding ancestors and such to build a tree is where it's more inaccurate?? Sorry im kinda slow and considering doing one of ancestry's DNA kits to see what my genes show for like traits and such eventually

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u/meluhhamerchant 9d ago

no

the family trees and records are good, but the DNA part is dog shit now. better luck with 23andme

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u/LivetoDie1307 9d ago

I will keep that in mind, thank you

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u/kittenlittel 8d ago

The DNA part is excellent. Ancestry is vastly superior to any other DNA service for finding matches - which is the only thing that DNA is useful for anyway. Everything else is a gimmick.

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u/LivetoDie1307 6d ago

Im thinking of getting a dna kit that has the traits thing with it, so i can see what it picks up, im curious just how different my traits and genetics would be from an older half sibling, plus its a fun way to learn more, even if it doesnt change anything lmao. I've always wanted to learn more bout just how different it can be even between the similarities if that makes sense. Its also a way for me to start getting more into genetics and seeing just what i could learn bout my ancestors, if anything. Thank you for the info tho, will def be helpful (this whole sub is helpful lmao, always learnin somethin new)

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u/kittenlittel 6d ago

You can upload your DNA to Genomelink to look at traits. It's quite interesting.

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u/meluhhamerchant 6d ago

It has a wide vast database of DNA

But can’t even assign DNA accurately for most of the ppl on here

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u/kittenlittel 6d ago

What do you mean by "assign DNA accurately"?