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I couldn't find a work around on edge, but the work around on firefox works wonderfully.

I don't have access to edge (I try very hard to keep it off my computer  ) but a quick google suggests that the Firefox "No style" setting - which has the effect of disabling cascading style sheets (CSS) - has no direct equivalent in edge.

More googling leaves me thinking it would be easier to install Firefox than try to get it to work with edge.  Unless there are any expert edge users around who know a user-friendly way to disable CSS on a specific site/page without affecting anything else.

My ancestors have severally occupied the same house for 150 years. How can I find out its origins?
I have the historical 'bones of by family, but creating people out of them is more difficult.

The paper deeds would record the transfer of ownership of the property from one person to another (assuming such transfers actually took place and were recorded) but the Land Registry won't have any information unless the property has been registered.

Has the property been mortgaged or transferred in recent times?  If not, it may not be registered.

Also note that many 'paper deeds' for properties that have been registered have subsequently been destroyed - once any relevant (for registration purposes) information has been digitised.

It's something to note for anyone who has paper deeds held by a bank or building society* (or in some cases a solicitor*) - unless you've made a specific request for the paper deeds to be retained (and returned to you in due course) there is a risk of the paper copies being destroyed without your knowledge - if there is sentimental or historical interest in the documents this is something to look into.

(*the above shouldn't apply to cases where the service is safe document storage - it relates to where the deeds are held for mortgage purposes, or in some cases 'deeds storage')

There is no way I trust Newspapers.com with my financial information.

I just had a look at what that dpo means, Data Protection Officer.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/data-protection-officer-dpo.asp

Ancestry's privacy page has links regarding deleting information that don't work.  If Ancestry's Data Protection Officer doesn't reply, doesn't reply within a reasonable time, or demands my payment details just to delete this account then I need to take some big steps to protect myself from them.

One of the roles of a DPO is to ensure that systems are in place so only the 'owner' of data is allowed to make requests which involve processing it.  There have to be safeguards in place so random strangers cannot make requests such as changing passwords and deleting accounts (potentially maliciously).

You could be going round in circles with the DPO for some time.

Ancestry are a large company and have a decent reputation. So long as you are dealing with them - not a spoof site - then you already have a lot of consumer protections.  You shouldn't be unduly alarmed.  I'm sure you will get it sorted out, but you may have to accept them following their procedures.

Their last email says they want to help but they need my card details....even though I repeated over and over that I don't have an account with them.

I suspect their systems may require them to have your card details to verify your ID when they interact with you - i.e. to make sure you are the person who 'owns' the account.  Unfortunately (even though you didn't want one), you do now have an account.

It looks like you have to have a paid account to create a password to have any control over your email address that they hold for you.

I don't have a paid account with them (never have) and have a password and control over my account settings.

Does anyone know either how to delete the account or create a password to change the email address?

If you go to "Account settings" (on a menu from the button on the top right of the page) there's an option to "Change Password".

Unfortunately that might not help much, as you have to enter your current password before setting and confirming your new one.

If you didn't enter a password then it might be worth trying leaving that blank - but I'd be very surprised if the account setup process allowed a blank password to be entered.

An alternative might be to log out, and then use the "Forgot password" link to get a password change link emailed to you.  BUT THE RISK of doing this is once you log out you will lose the access you currently have if the "Forgot password" option doesn't work.

Take this as a lesson from me, never use your real email address with these companies if you don't absolutely need to....even to email yourself documents, they will snatch it...

100%.

....however many times you explain that you don't have an account with them.

But you do...

If all else fails, one route out of this might be to give them details of a credit card, which I believe is necessary to activate the free trial (this may depend on the status of your account).

Make it clear that you are not authorising them to make an immediate charge to the card.  Once you have been able to access your account, cancel the trial (in accordance with the T&C's). 

Should something go wrong and a charge is made to your card you can then raise it as a dispute with your credit card provider.  Make sure you read the T&C's carefully first to ensure you do have a right to cancel with no charge being made.