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Ancestry.com memberships are 40% off through May 28th (lemmy.ml)

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I don't work for Ancestry.com or have any financial interest in the company. I just thought I'd share this a) in case anyone has been thinking of registering but doesn't want to pay full price, and b) as a record of when paid sites offer discounted memberships to avoid paying full price—usually they have sales around major holidays, such as Memorial Day or July 4th in the US.

There are excellent free sites, such as FamilySearch.org, but for some people, Ancestry.com has records not found on other sites.

If you're uncertain whether it's worth paying for a membership, try searching their records first. Ancestry will show you possible search results. Also try searching FamilySearch.org to see if you can find the record for free on that site.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

A note for everyone some libraries have free access to Ancestry.com and local records.

[–] FigMcLargeHuge 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

No offense to anyone using the site, but fuck them. Your ancestry data doesn't just magically appear there. In my families case it was my Mom that did all the work when the site wasn't charging for access. They built their business on people filling their database and then turned around and started charging people for access to the data they provided. Pretty scummy and pisses me off to this day. Now had they done something like offer the people, who gave them their data initially, a lifetime membership I might have a different opinion of the site, but that's not what they did.

Again, no judgement here just wanted to pass along my ancestry-com story.