Learning more about Family History through Ancestry.com Review & Giveaway!

I have really been interested in My Family History the last year or so. I received a membership from ancestry.com to review. My brother has really been talking about researching about our ancestors and I know he really enjoys it. So it got me thinking on how I could learn more. That is when I turned to ancestry.com

Ancestry.com is a great place to get started into Family History if you are a beginner like me or all the way up to an advanced searcher! When I first started looking, I thought I would be overwhelmed BUT ancestry.com is a great place to start. I can enter my name, spouses name and my parents names and birthdates and just from that little information I was able to research and find tons of people!

What I discovered as I was researching my family is that it is addicting! I would get started on one name and then a little leaf would pop up next to that name which is a hint at a record found! I would click on the leaf and there was additional info on that person as well as tons of info on other ancestors.

One thing I discovered while doing my family history was that my Grandpa actually had a sister named Charlotte! I had no idea when I named my daughter Charlotte that we actually had an ancestor with the exact same name…how cool is that!

What I love about ancestry.com is that it is very user friendly. I love that as your inputting your own info that the site is actually already searching. I have found pictures, marriage certificates, birth certificates, death certificates, pictures of gravestones etc.

There is also an entire network of people researching along with you! It’s great that with one click I can learn so much!

“Ancestry.com LLC is the world’s largest online resource for family history with approximately 2.7 million paying subscribers across all family history sites. Since starting as a publishing company in 1983, we have been a leader in the family history market for over 30 years and have helped pioneer the market for online family history research. We believe that most people have a fundamental desire to understand who they are and from where they came, and that anyone interested in discovering, preserving and sharing their family history is a potential user of Ancestry.com. We strive to make our service valuable to individuals ranging from the most committed family historians to those taking their first steps towards satisfying their curiosity about their family stories.

The foundation of our service is an extensive and unique collection of billions of historical records that we have digitized, indexed and put online since 1996. We have developed efficient and proprietary systems for digitizing handwritten historical documents, and have established relationships with national, state and local government archives, historical societies, religious institutions and private collectors of historical content around the world. These digital records and documents, combined with our proprietary online search technologies and tools, enable our subscribers to research their family history, build their family trees and make meaningful discoveries about the lives of their ancestors.

We have built the world’s largest online community of people interested in their family histories, and we believe that this network is highly valuable to our subscribers. Our community is a large and growing source of user-generated content uniquely focused on family history. Our registered users have created more than 60 million family trees containing more than 6 billion profiles. They have uploaded and attached to their trees over 200 million photographs, scanned documents and written stories. This growing pool of user-generated content adds color and context to the family histories assembled from the digitized historical documents found on Ancestry.com. Our subscribers also have attached to their trees over 3 billion records from our company-acquired content collection, a process that is helping further organize this collection by associating specific records with people in family trees.”