Is geneaology .com any good or waste of time

Question

Is geneaology .com any good or waste of time

Answer 1

It does not matter.

You may not find your family on ANY one website, if you are not familiar enough to know what you are looking for. Family research isn't about finding your family tree somewhere.. that only happens IF someone else has researched, and posted it.  Your ancestors may still be on the internet, in thousands of places, but not "pulled together" in a ready made tree. If genealogy.com concentrates on US records, that will not help if your family comes from Germany, etc.

Close your eyes, and identify your own grandfather (he is one person of 4 grandparents, each will be unique). If you know he was born in Georgia, you want to find birth records in Georgia. If his wife's parent's died in Missouri, you may need an obituary from St Louis.

You define what you want. What you want might be a site to type in your name and find your ancestors. Most people who want that, wind up being disappointed.  

Answer 2

It is good but these are better...

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default....

http://www.ancestry.co.uk/

http://www.genuki.org.uk/

http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk/

http://www.ancestorhunt.com/united_kingd...

http://www.oz.net/~markhow/acronym-uk.ht...

http://www.familyhistory.uk.com/

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/genesreun...