Ancestry/Genealogy

and have noticed lately they have been doing a LOT of system maintenance, whereby my tree was unavailable. (OK, this week, anyway.)

However... I believe that MyHeritage and Ancestry use same/similar public databases. State and federal census data, military data, and published genealogy compilations (from libraries) and the like.

I signed off on Ancestry about 6 months ago, and just recently renewed. They still had my tree online, and when I re-upped, I was able to begin working on it again.

I always stop at the international "pay wall" - if you want access to records other than USA, ya gotta pay extra. That sucks for my Italian and Portuguese side, but my USA (Scotch-English) goes back to 1623. So I think I've gone as far as I can go.

It all depends on how important it is, and how much you're willing to dish out.