There are many genealogy websites that will help you find your UK ancestors, but one of the most popular is Genes Reunited. I had heard about this site quite a lot before I joined myself. As a member of Friends Reunited, and a regular online ancestry researcher of course it seemed logical to join and see whether it was as good as it sounded, and whether it was the easy ancestor finder that it claimed to be.
I was able to join for free because it costs nothing just to register and build your current family tree on the site.
I did not really expect to find many people linking with my own family tree, but I was amazed at how many possible links there might be, and once I realised that some of these links were definite branches of my own tree, I wanted to start communicating with the other members. This of course means paying a fee, but it was really worth it to find various distant cousins and make contact with them.
Not only that, but these contacts allowed me to add 100s of names to my own family tree, and I even acquired a couple of pictures of my ancestors from my contacts!
Of course, like any online research, the information found via Genes Reunited should always be backed up by proper research, but it is certainly worth paying the fee to make contacts because you could very easily make break-throughs on lines you thought had come to a dead end.
Genes Reunited also gives you access to census records, birth marriage and death indexes, and military records (including WW1 & 2 death records) by a pay per view system.
Of all genealogy websites, Genes Reunited is probably one of the most well known and popular ancestor finder sites on the internet, and the reasons for this are not difficult to see. You are very likely to find more names for your family tree than you thought possible!
To find out more go to: www.GenesReunited.co.uk
