i wanted to know what is the best & affordable ancestry kit i could get, that doesnt have to mandatory require a subscription to where it's taking money out of your pocket every month
2020-08-07T22:42:38Z
what im meaning is to pay for a ancestry dna test (i think it's ridiculous to pay for a subscription when all i wanted was the kit to do my ancestry with, i said nothing of the sort of not wanting to pay anything, please no stupid answers. and for your information i have no family members that can help me with my family tree.
Anonymous2020-08-08T00:45:02Z
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As far as I know, the so-called ancestry-DNA tests (they find a few of your distant cousins rather than your longdeceased ancestors whose DNA was lost a century ago) don't require any subscription. You pay 99 dollars once, and that's it
If you take a DNA test, the only people you will be linked with are others who have used the same test - and there is no guaranteeing that any of your family members, distant or otherwise, have taken the same test. Don't expect a family tree to magically pop up. As Maxi says, it is for entertainment purposes - plus, unless you cancel, your DNA and information is sold on for 'research' purposes. You don't need anyone in your family to help with your tree (although it does help to get some information). You start with yourself. You know who your parents are and you may know who your grandparents are. When you have gone back as far as you can, you have to start ordering certificates to confirm. For example, you know who your grandmother is, but not her parents. Order her birth certificate and those details will be on there. Then you have another generation to add to your tree. It takes a lot of work, but can be fun and satisfying when you hit a streak of finding loads of people. You can also hit brick walls too, where you just can't find any information. Over time, more and more information is put online, so every so often, you just keep searching. If you want to do the DNA test, then there are plenty of others out there which don't need a subscription.
You can get a DNA kit from places like Amazon, they are even sold in local supermarkets, so you don't have to pay a subscription.... but KNOW what you are getting as it has nothing to do with knowing your ancestry, it is purely entertainment, get 10 kits and you will get 10 diffferent results...then you can choose which one you would like to beleive............ but if you want to find out who your ancestors were and where they came from then there is only one way to do that and that is to research the written records generated by each of your ancestors at the time they were alive
I don't know what you mean by 'a kit'. If you're just starting out on your family tree, you can do many years of research before an internet company needs to be paid for. You can get a long way by talking to relatives and taking loads of notes; visiting family graves and towns and villages where they might have lived; or by using any of the many free online resources. Just bear in mind that it takes years of dedicated research to go back even just a few generations!
I'm not sure what you mean by an 'ancestry kit'. Do you mean a DNA test? Ancestry.com, and its associated sites in countries other than the US has, I believe, short term subscriptions available. If you want to pay nothing at all to do some research on your family there are a number of other sites like familysearch which is quite good. Put 'genealogy websites' in your search bar and start looking. But you will find that in most cases you aren't going to get detailed information, or information that's easy to find, or something you can print out, without paying someone for it. If you pay a fee for each thing you want and if you want more than a few things, a subscription might start looking like not a bad deal. Even government websites often charge a fee for their services.