Ancestry Pro Tools discounted

[klewis]

Ancestry Pro Tools are on offer until 20 January 2025 -

£24.99 for 6 months  https://www.ancestry.co.uk/offers/join?feature=proTools&durFilter=semi

or £5.59 for 1 month https://www.ancestry.co.uk/offers/join?feature=proTools

Kathryn

[Biggles50]

Thanks for that info Kathryn

[ktk8]

Thanks, Kathryn!  Ancestry gave me a shout about the 1 month discount, but didn't mention the 6 months option. That's just about half price for 6 months.

[frostyknight]

Thanks for that 

[Raido]

Ancestry Pro Tools are on offer until 20 January 2025 -

£24.99 for 6 months  https://www.ancestry.co.uk/offers/join?feature=proTools&durFilter=semi

or £5.59 for 1 month https://www.ancestry.co.uk/offers/join?feature=proTools

Kathryn

Out of interest, what are the major benefits of these pro tools?

Is it much more than you can get from say Gedmatch (including the higher tiers) or uploading your  data to FamilytreeDNA?

[rsel]

Out of interest, what are the major benefits of these pro tools?

Hi Raido,
    If you are mainly interested in the DNA side, the only benfit is the enhanced shared matches, which shows you how much DNA a shared match has with both you and the tester you are looking at (i.e if you are looking at match A on your results, and look at the shared matches between you, you can see how close both you an A are to that person rather than just you without the pro tools). 
    There are other parts of Pro tools that are connected to your tree, link the validation tool (which checks for basic errors) and some additional reports, but personally i dont bother with them as they dont give me any benifits over the software i use on my computer to hold my master tree.

Richard

[Ruskie]

These “tools” should be included in my opinion.

At Ancestry it seems you have to pay for tools that others provide/include in the cost of the DNA test. And they have removed things which used to be included, to force you to pay a sub for the DNA results to be of any use.

I think they’ll be divvying up more features and charging separately for them, likely additional costs if you manage more than one test etc etc.

I’m not impressed with Ancestry atm.

[Millmoor]

For a bit of perspective I have just done some sums.

I have an Ancestry Premium sub costing £119.99 a year and, as a result of signing up quickly, pay £4.99  a month for pro tools.

I also have 2 DNA kits on My Heritage. One is an upload from Ancestry where I took advantage of their do it for free offer. This gives access to their tools. The other kit is a My Heritage test which does not give access to their tools. For the MH test to be of more value i would have to take out a sub. ( As things stand it shows only one shared match per match). Although they currently have a first year 25% discount in operation, Premium Plus is £184.99 and Complete £269.99. I have yet to be tempted.

William

[rosie99]

William I hope that you know you can get premium Ancestry for half that price.  There is an ongoing link on rootschat, it has been working for a few years now