I've tried it twice during "free" trials. It never found anything on my family, except the information I put in it. Having said that, my wife signed up for it and found all kinds of links on her mother's family, but not on her father's which was what she was trying to find. The biggest problem I've seen with it, is it lets you create a family tree, and adding pictures, articles, ships manifest (many of which we provided), but if you don't keep paying for it, you lose your tree. Apparently it is on a proprietary format that can't be saved on your computer. So... even though she does very little with Ancestry anymore, we are still paying for it every year so she won't lose her tree.