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How Do the .GENEALOGYWEBSITE GUIDE., 2016 How do the "big three" genealogy sites measure up to each other­ and to your research needs? We'll compare the sites' records, search features and more. BY SUNNY JANE MORTON ........ ...... ............ .. .. ...................... ...... ......... ........ .............. .. .. .. ....... ....... <familyt r eemagazine.com> m ~ THREE MAIN CONTENDERS have come to dominate If you're wondering why the FamilySearch website isn't the world of commercial genealogy websites: Ancestry .com in this match-up, it's because the site's owner, Utah-based <ancestry.com>, Findmypast <www.findmypast.com> and FamilySearch, is a nonprofit that doesn't compete for sub­ MyHeritage <www.myheritage.com>. Each is a heavyweight scription dollars. It has partnered with all three of the com­ in historical records content. Each has dedicated fans who mercial sites covered here to supply them with historical subscribe for full seasons of intense genealogical action or records in exchange for access to the sites ' record indexes, pay-per-view for records. technologies, investment in FamilySearch digitization So which site should win your subscription dollars? Who efforts or other terms. For the purpose of this contest, imag­ emerges the victor when all three are in the ring? It depends ine FamilySearch .org as the front-row fan holding up foam on the genealogist who's refereeing the match . Today, it's fingers for all three contenders. you. So grab your striped shirt and get ready to make some tough calls in the ongoing battle between three very worthy Breakingrecords opponents . Oh, and you're also putting up the prize purse, in The core strength of a genealogy website is its historical the form of your membership dollars. But you get to take the records content. (Note that when most websites supply winner(s) home with you for six months to a year-or at least a record count, they're referring to the number of names for 30 pay-per-view credits. recorded in a collection, not to the number of documents it contains.) Total number of records, geographic strengths and Meet the contenders rate of record addition can change quickly and be difficult Big genealogy websites offer a lot of content and features, but to assess. All three sites offer free memberships and a range it can be hard for users to get around the site and figure out of subscription options, but for comparison purposes, we'll if it meets their needs. We spoke with representatives from cover the records and features available to top-tier subscrib­ each company, who in turn consulted colleagues who shared ers (see the opposite page for pricing details). expertise in specific aspects of each site . Let's start with an For historical records, MyHeritage comes in third place overview of our contenders: with 4.2 billion names. Findmypast roughly doubles that to • ANCESTRY.COMis the most-recognized genealogy brand nearly 8 billion . Another doubling of the number brings us to in the United States, thanks to its veteran status, huge record the staggering 16 billion-plus records on Ancestry.com. count that includes full runs of popular US records, and mar­ "We're adding records at the rate of 2 million per day on keting efforts including a high-profile sponsorship of "Who average," says Ancestry.com spokesperson Matthew Deigh­ Do You Think You Are?" International collections cover 67 ton. "Over the last five years the average has been more than countries. Ancestry.com is the only site that integrates DNA 1 billion records added annually." He adds that Ancestry.com into the research process. The corporate family includes sis­ "is the largest digitizer of historical records each year" and ter sites Archives.com <archives.com>, Fold3 <fold3.com> and that the company focuses most of its resources into digitizing Newspapers.com <www.newspapers.com>. content that's unavailable elsewhere online. • FINDMYPASToffers deep reach into UK records. The site Findmypast is growing quickly, too. Company research started with British birth, marriage and death registers to 1837, expert Alex Cox says the site adds millions of records each and now includes a range of government records, along with month and "will add more new records in 2016 than ever British and Irish newspapers. Findmypast, a company owned before in the company 's history." by UK-based DC Thomson , has expanded records coverage MyHeritage doesn't give specific statistics, but accord­ and marketing efforts into the United States and Australia . ing to public relations manager Aaron Godfrey, millions of Partner and subsidiary sites include ScotlandsPeople <www. records and family tree profiles are added to the site each day. scotlandspeople.gov.uk>, the British Newspaper Archive The sites' trees and related user-submitted records also <www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk>, Genes Reunited <www. can be counted separately from historical records. For now, genesreunited.co.uk> and Mocavo <mocavo.com> (which is Findmypast doesn't rank in this category because users can't being merged into Findmypast at press time). • MYHERITAGEbegan as a family networking and tree­ building website from Israel-based MyHeritage. The site still shows unbeatable strength in these areas, as well as in the powerful , creative search technologies. Its strong and growing TIP: Search records on all three of these contending international fan base gives it another edge in the ring: It cur­ sites using the computers at a local FamilySearch Center rently serves customers in 42 languages, and its trees are the (see <www.familysearch.org/locations> to find one most internationally diverse in the industry. In its corporate near you) or at many public libraries . corner are Geni.com <www.geni.com> (a unified family tree website) and World Vital Records <www.worldvitalrecords.com>. m Family Tree Magazine~ MAR C H/ APRI L 2 016 · ·· ·• • · · · · · · ... · .... · · · .. • · · .. · · • · • .. ·• ••• .. · · .. ·· • • · ···•· · · . • • •• . • .••• · · ·• • •• · · · • · · ·· ·· ' •• •• ·· · • • • • • • • • ... KEEPINGSTATS f~H3i'ii:Ug•JM cm,.m.~-m 001:IE~ • 12 billion; collections listed • nearly 8 billion; collect ions • 4.2 billion; to see collection at <search.ancestry.com/ listed at <search.findmypast. listings, click on categories Historical records search/cardcatalog.aspx> com/historical-records> at <www.myheritage.com/ research> • 70 million, w ith 6 billion • you can build a tree here, but • 28 million trees with 2.6 Trees profiles can't yet search others' trees billion profiles • leader in US record content • leader in unique UK records • globa lly diverse trees • DNA testing provider and newspapers • unique search tec hnologies Unique features • DNA/family tree integration • Periodical Source Index • family websites • companion desktop soft ware • compan ion desktop (from <www.mackiev.com>) software • $149 for six months of • $199.50 annually for • $179.40 annually for Ancestry Wor ld Explorer Findmypast World a Bundle plan, which Best access subscription price comb ines Premium Plus and Data plans • <biogs.ancestry.com/ • <blog.findmypast.com> • <blog.myheritage.com>, ancestry> Site info and help • <www.findmypast.com/ • <helpcenter.myheritage. • <help.ancestry.com> frequently-asked-questions> com> yet search trees (this feature is on the horizon for 2016). content, with more on a sister site, Newspapers.com <www. MyHeritage subscribers can search about 28 million trees newspapers.com> (available through a separate subscription). that include 2.6 billion individual profiles and 200 million • US RECORDS: Genealogists with deep US roots benefit photographs. Ancestry.com slightly more than doubles most from Ancestry.corn's enormous and unique US collections. of those numbers , with about 70 million trees containing Ancestry.com hosts the only significant collection of special around 6 billion profiles and 300 million photos, documents census schedules (slave, mortality, agriculture and more) and stories. and incorporates user-submitted census corrections into the search process . State and territorial census data are rich, as Core strengths are state- and county-level vital and church records. Its col­ Heavyweight numbers of records and trees are most effec­ lection of US city directory entries now surpasses 1.5 billion . tive when that weight is well -distributed, and you can find In 2015, Ancestry.com released its Social Security Appli­ records of most interest to your family history, geographi­ cations and Claims Index , 1936-2007, covering 49 million cally and chronologically. people and including birth dates and -places and parents' • PRIMARY COLLECTIONS: The three contenders all host names (which don't show up on the SSDI). It also launched core US and UK content-basic, popular record groups with an enormous and still-growing collection of US wills and broad coverage. All have the Social Security Death Index probate records, with more than 170 million indexed records (SSDI) and population schedules for US censuses up to 1940. from all 50 states. These records result from a partnership The same goes for English censuses up to 1911and indexes with FamilySearch, though the records aren 't indexed on the to English and Scottish births and christenings dating to FamilySearch site. The United States is the company's largest the 1500s. All have received millions of records through area of records content investment. partnerships with nonprofit site FamilySearch .org. Ancestry. Findmypast is now home to 850 million US records (and com describes these as "a very
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