Which is the best Online Genealogy Site?

My personal opinion is that both the sites you mention are available at public libraries and Family History Centers free. So why bother to pay for them. My Heritage and Footnotes are excellent sites too and are available free at the same places.

Ancestry is the most widely known because of a TV campaign. Family Search is the longest database and connects directly to the LDS Library, which is where other sites get a significant amount of Information. I would suggest that she try Familysearch.org first, I have been having great success with it lately. Found copies of actual legal documents

there, not transcriptions. Ancestry has the pedigree charts, but few have referenced sources of the information, which makes them all but useless to a serious genealogists. Also the information is primarily the upload of others who may or may not have simply copied someone's information, claimed it as their own and never verified any of it. Finally read the terms and conditions of any site your subscribe to carefully. There was a statement that anything loaded on to Ancestry became the property of Ancestry, meaning stories and pictures, which can be copy-written, unless you give that right away, which uploading to Ancestry would do.

You can get a free 2 wk membership from Ancestry.com and I think that is the best. It also pops up leaves when you submit your surnames and you just follow it from there. Make sure that the dates match ups for the persons you are searching for. I've found lots of info out there on that site. If you just google the name or put geneology in the browser, you'll get lots of places to look at. Ancestry.com has a few different membership levels. If you know that you'll need to be searchin out of the country, start with the starter, then graduae to the world one. Cyndi's list also is invaluable.