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#Find my past how to#
#Find my past full#
#Find my past free#

Only being able to see one side of a family tree at a time.Īll the ancestry websites we looked at also sell DNA tests.

#Find my past free#

The glitchy sign-up process made it hard to access the free trial.

You can expand the search internationally.

The search defaulted to British records only, so initial results were less overwhelming.

Proactive hints linked to each ancestor.

There's also a blog where you can take part in polls and read real-life experiences of other site members.

#Find my past how to#

This site offered the most hints, emailing with suggestions about building our tree - we were automatically opted in to those emails when we signed up, although fortunately that didn't extend to us being opted in automatically to marketing emails.įindMyPast also has an in-depth, hour-long webinar on getting started, storing and organising sources, and details of resources available, as well as FAQs section with tips on how to proceed if you hit a brick wall. FindMyPast told us they're looking into this and will improve the sign-up experience. We eventually had to log out and log back in again to find and sign up for the free trial. The search button brought up a promising short list of possible birth and marriage records but when we tried to click a record, we were redirected to the subscription selection screen - and this time there was no option for a free trial. There was also a hint button - although there were no hints available yet (they started cropping later).

It was hard to narrow down results on the search functionality.Ĭlicking on an ancestor brought up a profile summary pop-up, allowing us to edit details such as adding dates of birth and death or photos, and also to search.

Profile summaries displayed to the side of the tree rather than popping up over the top.

The site offers comprehensive FAQs, as well as an 'education centre' with advice guides and step-by-step videos. Beyond the initial emails confirming our account, we had three emails, two of which were suggestions about how to 'bring my tree to life', while the third was a marketing plug for its DNA testing service. We were opted in by default to all the emails including support and marketing, without being given a way to opt out, which we think breaches privacy rules. We were also given the option to 'invite' living relatives that featured on my tree by entering their email address - something we wouldn't do without asking their permission first.Īs with Ancestry, the sheer number of default search results was overwhelming, and the first results displayed were from US census records, although MyHeritage showed what rich pickings the ability to access other users' family trees can offer: our tester found a photo she'd never seen of her great-grandfather. From this, we could view a more detailed profile, edit the profile (including adding photos), research the person or buy a DNA test. The tree wasn't as visually appealing as Ancestry's, but we did like that clicking on an individual brought up their profile to the left of the screen, rather than as a pop-up over the top of the tree.

We couldn't easily find any videos to help get started.

The overwhelming number of search results - the top results weren't always relevant, throwing up a lot of US records for a relative who was born and died in the UK.Proactive hints linked to each ancestor in the form of little leaves.The attractive, streamlined family-tree interface.The written content was pretty sparse, however, and we couldn't get the potentially helpful videos on this page to work. Its help section is comprehensive, and includes FAQs and member message boards, and there's a guide to getting started with tracing ancestors. Clicking on 'search' from within an ancestor's profile often brought an intimidating number of results - 140,190 for our tester's mother, for example.Ī.uk set all optional emails, including hints, to 'off' by default, so we only received service emails (such as confirmation of subscription). Additionally, 'leaves' start popping up offering hints about each ancestor in the form of suggested records (official records and family tree matches) linked to them.

#Find my past full#

There's also the option to view a full profile, the details of which increase as you add to your family tree. Clicking on an ancestor gives the option of a quick edit to add more information, including whether they were living or deceased, and details of their birth and death. We found the visual look of .uk's family tree clean and streamlined.