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[151949]

You aren't "locked in " to ancestry.com. You can guit at any time and your family tree will sit exactly as you left it on their site. I have joined & worked on my tree in the summers while we are up north for several years then in the fall when we come back to Florida and I don't have the resources here to work on it I quit and it is sitting there for me to restart the next summer.

[Laura14]

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@janz wrote:

@Laura14

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@Laura14 wrote:

If you purchase the DNA kit, do you also have to have a membership or can you just do the kit and get the results?  

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You can do the DNA kit without subscription but get more results if you are a member of Ancestry.  

For information:

Ancestry DNA Results with/without subscription

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@janz  Thank you!  I coudn't find this when I looked before.  Much appreciated!!

[janz]

@Laura14

Welcome.  Genealogy is meant to be shared.

[Jasmine19]

I just cancelled my 6 month subscription to Ancestry. I found I just wasn't using it enough to continue. I will say it was very easy to cancel. They send you an email a few weeks ahead of time reminding you that you need to cancel or they will continue to charge you. The email included a link to click on to cancel.

[151949]

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@Jasmine19 wrote:

I just cancelled my 6 month subscription to Ancestry. I found I just wasn't using it enough to continue. I will say it was very easy to cancel. They send you an email a few weeks ahead of time reminding you that you need to cancel or they will continue to charge you. The email included a link to click on to cancel.

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Very simple. And you can go back anytime you want , for as long as you want, as often as you want. Work on it a few months then cancel again until you are ready to start back up.

[SilleeMee]

I used it only to get my DNA profile. I am not really interested in my family tree but every once in a while I'll get a message from someone who is a 'match' to my DNA. These people are usually looking to get their family trees in order. I give them what I know as far as names and d.o.b. but I don't get too excited about that. I should probably make my profile more private.

[Shanus]

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@janz wrote:

@Shanus

If interest, has your son tried the DNA kit to try to learn about his birth family?  Sometimes it is important to them, sometimes not, but you may be able to learn medical history.  I have a neice who cared and discovered brothers and a nephew who does not care and not interested in learning.  

Your son sounds like a true gem in his family.

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[lilypadfrog]

I am a recent addict of this site.  If I remember correctly, when you do a dna kit, they give you a short membership.  I have now found my husband paternal  line back to 1340.  Its amazing how much information is on this site.  I am now working on his maternal line then will do mine.  One thing I noticed is that you have to decide how much you want to do.  A hundred or so years ago, having 8+ children was normal.  But you then have to follow each sibling who may in turn have many children and their wives.  I am only following the main bloodline, but my distant cousin is doing it all.  She has over 59,000 in her tree while I have about 500.  I will of course have more once I complete husbands maternal line, then do both the paternal / maternal side of mine.

This can be very addictive.  I often spend 3 or 4 hours a day doing this.  My membership now includes other countries so that makes it more interesting.

[Moonchilde]

It’s not cheap, but there’s no site with accessibility to more info and forums.

I had done my genealogy on site for years before I did the DNA test. I found three first cousins I didn’t know I had, a second cousin who put me in touch with them, and a second cousin on the other side.  Because you can add other peoples’ research to your own, I have gone back to Elizabethan England in my tree. 

[Moonchilde]

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@151949 wrote:

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@Jasmine19 wrote:

I just cancelled my 6 month subscription to Ancestry. I found I just wasn't using it enough to continue. I will say it was very easy to cancel. They send you an email a few weeks ahead of time reminding you that you need to cancel or they will continue to charge you. The email included a link to click on to cancel.

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Very simple. And you can go back anytime you want , for as long as you want, as often as you want. Work on it a few months then cancel again until you are ready to start back up.

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This is what I’ve done. I paid in for several years, took a break of several years, and am now back. 

They also have special weekend freebies. One example, over Memorial Day weekend they gave free access to UK records, which I made good use of.