Hi Jo-Ann. I have been a subscriber to Ancestry.com for the past 1 1/2 years and I found it to be a good value. I have found many details out about two branches of my family by accessing the site-including the names of two of my ancestors on passenger ship lists coming to the United States from Germany. Also, the first year I subscribed, I was given a CD Rom that has the elctronic version of (I think) the top five Genealogy books used in research (please check out Ancestry's site for details). I believe it was valued at over $60.00 and I got it free for subscribing, This year I renewed my subscription, and since I already has the Ancestry Reference LIbrary '98 sent free, I was given subscriptions to two genealogy magazines (I love Ancestry's snail mail magazine. It is writen well and the articles are very interesting and easy to read. When the magazine arrives, I cannot put it down until I read the whole thing. The magazine retails at $4.95 U.S. per issue and is put out 6 times a year) and a book called The Source,: A Guidebook of American Genealogy. The book is absolutely wonderful (my favorite resource) and almost 900 pages long-I think it retails for $50 plus dollars. I would have gladly paid $60.00 or more for the book and magazine subscriptions alone-let alone have access to all of Ancestry's online sources as well. I would recomemend that you get a trial subscription (if available) to the site to see how it works for you. You could check with Ancestry to see if they would upgrade the membership and give you the free gifts if you decide to pay for a whole year. You might want to review the entire list of sources on Ancestry.com's web site. This may help you evaluate how useful the site could be for you. Also, you might try searching for names in your family and see how many pay/member ($) listings you get. If you do not get many matches, then Ancestry may not be a good value for you. Different people have different needs so Ancestry.com may not work for everyone. However, I have been extremely pleased with the service and plan to renew again. If you have any other questions about the service that I may help you with, please email me. Lynn Zimmerman In a message dated 11/8/99 7:11:07 AM US Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << i was thinking of joining this does anyone belong already and is it worth it. 59.95 per yr. Jo-Ann >>