Good/Bad experiences with Genealogy websites?

I'd strongly suggest you buy a genealogy program, instead of building your tree on-line. If your data is on your PC, and you back it up religiously, it can't be hacked, and you won't be affected of a web site goes out of business or raises their rates.

I like Roots Magic, but Legacy has its fans. You can Google "Genealogy Software comparisons" or "Genealogy Software Reviews" to see what the professionals think.

They both cost about $29. At the moment you can get the old version of Roots Magic on a CD from Amazon.com for $9.95; bless their hearts, when version 7 came out, they didn't want take the leftover version 6 CDs to the landfill. (I'm chugging along quite happily with RM 3.0, running on Windows 7, and I use a text editor, EDT, from the 1980's.)

I use www.familysearch.org and www.findagrave.com every day. Both are free.

I subscribe to Ancestry.com, Newspapers.com and Genealogybank.com, and use all three every day.

There are 400,000 other free sites devoted to genealogy; Cyndi's List lists 250,000 or so.

Two cautions -

1) It isn't as easy as the TV ads for Ancestry.com make it seem.

2) The family trees on Ancestry.com, Roots Web World Connect, and other places are riddled with errors. Don't believe them until you check the references.

I found a tree on Ancestry the other month for a fellow who was born in 1801, married in Virginia to a lady named Mary Thompson, died in 1838 or 1840, then went on the serve in the Civil War, which is hard to do if you are 60 years old and dead, unless it is in the 10th Tennessee Zombie Regiment. The one source they cited was a Mary Thompson who married a John Watt in Connecticut. The Connecticut marriage was within two years of the Virginia one, and the bride's name was the same. Half a dozen people copied that part of the tree without stopping to do the math, realize how many women were named Mary Thompson, or that Connecticut and Virginia were not quite the same place.

My advice is never to post trees online, you either purchase or download free FH software so it is on your own computer and remains your property and you have access to it.... online it belongs to the website and unless you pay to continue to use the website you lose the ability to do corrections, add or remove anything , several offer free online however they (can and do) in a future point start charging, you do not even need internet access if it is on your computer and you have privacy so can add people who may not have died

You will find some links to free FH software on here http://familytimeline.webs.com/apps/links/ also a comparison website too..there is also lots on the market you can purchase

geni is nice if they used it