What is it going to cost me to find my family members ?
As the corporate communications director at WorldVital Records.com, I have been receiving a lot of emails lately with people asking how much it is going to cost to have a subscription at WorldVitalRecords.com. In fact, one woman just sent me an email and said, Just wondering… are you going to be like other genealogy companies that have become unaffordable to me? I want to answer this question as clearly as possible. NO!
One of our purposes for building WorldVitalRecords.com is to provide a site that is affordable to people. I think it is ludicrous that people have to spend thousands of dollars trying to find their family members. I mean, can Jim really help it if his great, great great, great, grandmother was from Ireland, and unfortunately, to access that particular database containing the records he is seeking, he has to pay the equivalency of a plane ticket to travel to that country. It’s just not right.
We will not discourage people from doing their genealogy/family history work because of outrageous subscription prices. Currently we are working on our subscription model. For now, all of our content is free! (And we will always have some free content on our site.)
If you haven’t seen WorldVitalRecords.com, I encourage you to check it out. Our Alexa ranking, which shows daily page views was at 0 on June 28th and rose to 8 million on the day we launched our site (July 5)! Are we excited? Yes! Are we going to keep subscription prices low? Yes!