Cancel Ancestry
This link opens your subscriptions page. Choose the subscription and cancel it. Expect offers of a discount or a pause before the confirmation. Access runs to the end of the paid term, and your tree and DNA results stay in your account after that.
Opens ancestry.com in a new tab. You will need to log in.
tapcancel is an independent guide and is not affiliated with Ancestry. You sign in on Ancestry’s own site. We never ask for a login, a password or a card number, here or anywhere.
Signed up through Apple or Google Play?
Then Ancestry cannot cancel it for you. Use the store you paid through instead.
What to expect
Buried in settingsIf the button does not land you there
- Open ancestry.com/account/subscriptions and sign in
- Select the subscription you want to end
- Choose the cancel option
- Work through the discount and pause offers to the confirmation
- If Apple or Google billed you, cancel in that store instead
Other countries
Ancestry runs country sites such as ancestry.co.uk and ancestry.com.au that share one account system.
Free or cheaper instead
Independent suggestions. We have no partnership with any of them, no affiliate links, and nothing here is paid for placement.
- FamilySearch Free records and family trees from a nonprofit.
- Open Library Borrow scanned books free from the Internet Archive.