Different memberships provide access to different records. Select a membership length (6 or 12 months) and type (U.S. Discovery, World Explorer, or All Access) > Order now. Enter the recipient's email address > select the membership start date > add a message for the recipient (optional) > Save gift options.

Choose the desired gift membership plan and add it to your cart. Sign in with your existing Ancestry account or create an account if you're a new user. Enter your friend or family member's information, a personalized gift message, the date you'd like the gift to be delivered, and complete your order.

AncestryDNA test kits are consistently among the most popular products our readers purchase each month, and you'll find them on many of our gift guides this holiday season. There are lots of people on your list who would love the opportunity to dig deep into their roots and learn more about their genetic makeup.

To activate your gift membership, go to Ancestry® and enter the access code from your email.

And grow their membership base. You may even get a shout out from the creator or community in the live chat for your support. Here are the steps to gift the membership.

Ancestry has three membership types: U.S. Discovery, World Explorer, and All Access. When you start a free trial, you choose a type of membership and decide how often you'd like it to renew (monthly or every six months).

The closest competitor to ancestry.com are familysearch.org, forebears.io and names.org.

The cost of Ancestry is the cost of convenience. Ancestry has created their own name-searchable indexes (a rarity when working with original paper records), transcriptions, and databases at great man-hour expense (even offshoring this work is expensive at the volume they are dealing with).

With over 30 billion records from over 80 countries, Ancestry is an excellent resource for your family history research! There are several ways to locate records within Ancestry: Search all collections- Enter what you know about an ancestor, and Ancestry will show a list of records that may be related to that person.

Gift memberships are 6- or 12-month non-renewing Ancestry® memberships. When someone receives a gift membership, they don't need to enter payment information. With a membership, people can view records they find through searching and see records attached to hints in their tree.

And grow their membership base. You may even get a shout out from the creator or community in the live chat for your support. Here are the steps to gift the membership.

Actually, if you currently have a paid Ancestry subscriptions OR if you just have a free account, there are ways you can get an Ancestry Gift Membership for yourself! Basically, for current Ancestry paid members, you will need to CANCEL your current membership and then use the Ancestry Gift Membership.