Is there a decent family tree / genealogy service, site or program?

[morkus64]

I'm played around with most of the majors - they all charge far too much and provide far too little in the free versions. I'm tried Gramps, which is at least open-source, but it's clunky, ugly, and doesn't have the databases behind it.

Thoughts?

 

[rsbennett00]

My family has used ancestry.com and been able to trace us back to the 1500's.

 

[clamum]

I've been wondering, is Ancestry.com really only helpful if your other family members have entered history on their ancestors?

 

[homebrew2ny]

My wife used Ancestry to trace her lineage back hundreds of years and she is the only one to have used it in the entire family. It has powerful & automated searching tools at its disposal. Well worth the money if you want to spend a few weeks/months delving in to your family history.

 

[Kneedragger]

I used Ancestry a while ago to find family. I was able to see ship manifest of when they came into the US and who was with them. I also got to see where they were at certain points in the past with the Census.

 

[OverVolt]

Or you could ask your parents.