I prefer desktop to ipad/laptop for doing genealogy - I also like to be able to print off charts and reports so have a paper backup and for when I can't get access to the internet.
A lot of people started genealogy by getting a FTM with the free sub and once addicted carried on from there. If they don't get the FTM in the first place the enthusiasm probably won't be there. Think Ancestry may have shot themselves in the foot.
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