ancestry world explorer membership review

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I have tried to be clear about the risks, and while I was successful in gaining back all that I had on my Ancestry platform, I was also prepared to have to rebuild my work from scratch. Please bear in mind that I am sharing my experience with Ancestry’s subscription policies for general interest. I cancelled my subscription, all my work was still in Ancestry even while I was an unpaid guest, and I was able to renew at a substantial discount. Welcome Back offer from Ancestry Does cancelling instead of renewing work? Same account as my previous account (so I’d get all my work back).Ancestry World Deluxe Membership (not a lesser subscription like All Canada).When I clicked on the Buy Now button, it said Welcome Back, Linda Yip, do you want to buy? I carefully checked the details: I’d cancelled my membership – did I qualify? The offer was from the Ancestry site, and stipulated it was for new subscribers only. I was so excited about taking it, I forgot to get a screen cap of it. I have no idea why this page didn’t show up in my account, but it didn’t. Lo and behold, Google found me a page from Ancestry offering a 12 month World Deluxe Membership for $149.94 (half price). The small discount Ancestry offered on my home page – $50 off a 6 month subscription Google to the rescueīut before I took the $50, I thought I’d see if Google could find me a better deal.

I was going into withdrawal and tempted to take the $50. I did find that Ancestry was willing to offer a small concession for a 6 month subscription: $50 off. I’d also read that Ancestry sent emails to former subscribers with “come back” offers. I’d read that Ancestry might post a banner ad offering a discount, but no banner showed up for me. Each day, I’d sign in to check my account. I cancelled with 5 hours remaining on my subscription, and crossed my fingers that all my work wouldn’t be erased with that one decision. I’d read that in order to ensure I wasn’t automatically renewed, cancelling should be done a few days’ prior, but I had work to do right up until renewal day. On Renewal Day, I took a deep breath and cancelled my subscription. Is the risk really worth at most $150, I asked myself.

#ANCESTRY WORLD EXPLORER MEMBERSHIP REVIEW FULL#

I reread the methodology for cancelling and renewing on Facebook groups.Įven after all of that, I thought about playing it safe and allowing the subscription to renew at full cost.

#ANCESTRY WORLD EXPLORER MEMBERSHIP REVIEW MAC#

I uploaded those trees to Mac Family Tree.

I downloaded “.gedcom” files for all my trees. Ancestry is supposed to save your work regardless of subscription type, but what if something went wrong? I carefully checked all my backup documents and links. These trees represent years of intense work, and the thought of risking all that work gave me heart palpitations. I use it to build trees on behalf of other people, and at last count I think I had over a dozen different trees. I had a subscription to World Deluxe, which, as of April, 2019 is a few cents shy of CAD$300. Once you’ve signed up, though, Ancestry automatically renews your subscription year after year, at the full subscription cost. If you are a new subscriber, Ancestry will offer you a sweetener to subscribe – discounts of 30-50% are available. It seems that Ancestry is nicer to new customers than existing customers. Why would any keen genealogist want to cancel their Ancestry subscription? One of her posts intrigued me – it talked about how, after 12 years of faithfully subscribing to Ancestry and renewing at the full price, she took a risk and cancelled her subscription. I’m a big fan of Gail Dever’s Genealogy à la Carte. I cancelled my Ancestry subscription in order to get a new subscriber discount.

Ancestry world explorer membership review