I’ve had an account on ancestry.com for years now. And I agree with what you say. But as you probably know, the Mormons are very big on genealogy in fact next to ancestry.com their church is the next biggest website to visit for info on your ancestors. They actually have their own site similar to ancestor.com and I’m not 100% that they are not somehow affiliated with ancestry.com but that’s beside the point.
I found out that my 9th Great-grandfather was John PROCTOR who was accused of being a witch in and hung in Salem in 1692.
My mother and uncle have been doing all the research on their own. My great Grandfather sailed from Antwerp bound for Canada on the SS Mount Temple which had a short but eventful history on the seas. Today its at the bottom of the Atlantic full of dinosaur bones.
We’ve also found that my great grandmothers grandfather and his brother signed up to fight for the union on the same day. The brother apparently switched sides and never returned north to Wisconsin.
Through Ancestry I found that my 10th great grandfather was Gov. Bradford of the Mayflower pilgrims.
I’ve found that ancestry.com don’t know shiite, and want you to supply the info.
My idiot brother-in-law once told me that another genealogy website, I forget its name, will do the research for free and let you know your ancestors. I told him he was crazy, but the bozo then supplied them with complete info about me and our entire family. For free. GRRRRRRH!
LOL we all got `skeletons`, some good and some bad... An 8th great grandmother was Anne Washington, 3rd cousin of George...
My common ancestor with GW was Lawrence Washington and Aimee Partiger of Kent, England in the early 1600s
Also, God help me, my common ancestor with THE ONE is Mareen (Marion) DuVall of Normandy, France... Who immigrated to Maryland about 1650.
“.... accused of being a witch in and hung in Salem in 1692.”
I am amazed that some of these things can be traced back that far.
I am just now starting my search. I have put it off for far to long and now I finally have the time to get serious about it.
I haven’t as yet decided what service to use.