The end of the road

[Marianthompson47]

I took out an Ancestry subscription last year and built my family tree.
At the same time, I invested in a DNA Kit and downloaded it, finding cousins I knew nothing about.

It was easy building my father's side of the tree but because my mother's mother came from Poland, then under Prussian flagship (I think), I came to a brutal stop. I did however find a birth certificate in Russian for my great grandmother.

Now fed up with stalling and paying Ancestry obscene amounts of money, I have decided to cancel my subscription.
I will probably lose all the certificates I found on line, together with my tree.

[rosie99]

Are you aware that there is a very good offer on ancestry subscriptions

[mckha489]

You can download a gedcom of your tree and put it into a genealogy programme

You would have to go through and download all the images you have saved there individually

[Wexflyer]

I took out an Ancestry subscription last year and built my family tree.
At the same time, I invested in a DNA Kit and downloaded it, finding cousins I knew nothing about.

It was easy building my father's side of the tree but because my mother's mother came from Poland, then under Prussian flagship (I think), I came to a brutal stop. I did however find a birth certificate in Russian for my great grandmother.

Now fed up with stalling and paying Ancestry obscene amounts of money, I have decided to cancel my subscription.
I will probably lose all the certificates I found on line, together with my tree.

You will only lose certificates, etc. if you only link to them via Ancestry. You should always download a copy to your own computer, and then upload back to your Ancestry tree as media attached to the person of interest. That way, you dom't lose them when a subscription lapses.

[Erato]

"I will probably lose all the certificates I found on line"

Why haven't you downloaded them?

[KGarrad]

You can still work on your tree even without a subscription.
But you won't see any images that comes from Ancestry.

I don't have a sub, but I have 12 trees!

[phil57]

Transfer the tree to a program on your own computer. Download all the relevant documents and images and store them locally. Then you will be independent of any subscription sites.

I decided right at the start that I wasn't going to rely on any remote subscription genealogy sites as a repository for my main tree. I do upload copies from my computer to those sites at regular intervals to take advantage of hints and DNA matching, but they are bare bones Gedcom files with no sources or documents/images attached. Everything of importance is on my own PC and backed up on a home NAS and in the cloud.

[Drayke]

If you cancel your subscription they now have an option to pay AUD$7.95/month to just keep access to the records you have saved in your tree. Whilst it means you cant view new records with that amount, it does allow you to view any certificates or other records you have saved to your tree.

[Biggles50]

If you buy either Roots Magic or Family Tree Maker they will both download your full tree including certificates, media, images etc when you start a new project and select download.

It is far better doing it this was than importing a Gedcom file into a programme.

What you could do to checkout software is download the free Roots Magic Essentials and import a Gedcom then you will have your tree for free plus you can then see what you get with using a Gedcom.

BTW
£89.99 for a Worldwide subscription is what I pay and is hardly excessive.  Search this forum for links and procedures.