Confinity vs Ancestry.

We have real respect for Ancestry. For tracing lineage — census returns, immigration manifests, parish registers, DNA matches — nothing else comes close, and if that is what you want, you should use it. But Ancestry looks backward: it researches ancestors from public archives. Confinity looks at now. It is a private, warm home for the present and recent past — the texture of ordinary days, a grandparent's actual voice recorded while they're still here, photos and stories your children will want a generation from today. Ancestry assembles a tree of names from records; Confinity holds the living people behind them, shared only by invitation, with consent tiers. They aren't rivals so much as opposites in time. Ancestry is for the researcher reaching back; Confinity is for the family writing forward. Many households will happily keep both.