[quote name='HotShotX']So you would consider it legit then? About how long have either of your associates been with the service? How long until they got results, and if they end their subscription, do they lose everything acculumated?
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I would consider it legit. As far as I know, my grandmother has been using ancestry.com since it first started. Before that, she hunted things down in the library using micofiche and other ridiculously old school methods. She's more than happy using this and other sources. She did most of the legwork but she said it was gratifying that it verified all her hard work.
Results usually start popping up right away. From what I know, you put your name in and the names of your parents. You go back as far as you can remember and the system works for there. The first couple generations should come back pretty quickly but it's hit or miss when it comes to ancestors from previous centuries especially if your family recently immigrated. The people with the best chances of going back a couple centuries will be Europeans. Then again, some people's names got butchered at Ellis Island so you might want to ask your grandparents now if they remember any different spellings of your name.
For a African Americans, I would suggest DNA testing. This will better pinpoint the region of Africa that your blood ancestors came from. Ancestry will help you get to the mid 1800s but you're pretty much done unless you really want to trace the geneologies of people that owned your ancestors.
