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Genealogy, records & ethnicity: find relative & ancestor stories for your tree
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Oct 29, 2026
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The app is very good, and we can keep track of the family quite easily including from registers found by ancestry. The onlybad and quite annoying issue I found is that I am not able to see the entire tree at once, only close relatives! That is not useful when you do not know if you have details from someone far from you, or simply to see how we are both connected.
25 people found this review helpful
Andrew Gough
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October 17, 2022
This is not a very good app at all! Far too slow! You don't appear to have a person finder? When eventually you find the person you want, the view button is useless, as it does not respond! Where can you view other peoples family trees? When I do a search for someone, you list everyone except the one I want and even list another person with a different first name! Why? When are you going to improve this app? Not enough room to write a review as limited space!
70 people found this review helpful
Sue McGlade
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December 31, 2025
DNA results disappear . I have 4 DNA kits on my account, since I sent the last one in November, all my results keep disappearing on the app. They appear fine on my computer, but I cannot always access a computer and would like to be able to rely on the app, but I can't! I'm paying for access but not getting it 70% of the time. Also the app is very clunky, there's things you can't do on it. I basically do not like it.
15 people found this review helpful
Ancestry.com
January 15, 2026
Hi there. We are sorry to hear you are having issues with the App. Please try the troubleshooting steps here, https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Troubleshooting-Ancestry-Apps
If the issue persists, please email our mobile team on mobileapps@ancestry.com. Please include app & OS version, device type, ancestry username
Ancestry App Team