Ancestry: charged after a free trial
Cancel more than two days before the trial ends. A converted trial is not refundable, and the 14-day refund option does not apply to memberships that started with a trial.
What does this mean?
Grade A (high: almost everything comes from official pages read directly). 100% of 23 sources are the organization's own pages or government sites.
Collect
- trial start and end dates
- cancellation confirmation number
Steps
In Account Settings, select Cancel trial under Membership at least two days before the trial ends, and keep the confirmation number.
OnlineAncestry Account Settings: Membership section > Cancel membership (or Cancel trial) Sign-in required
More contacts for this issue
Facts you can cite
- Deadline
For a free or paid trial, "you may cancel at any time prior to two days before the end of the trial period and incur no further charge." "If you do not cancel by that time, your subscription will start once your trial period ends."
Source: ancestry.com, verified 2026-10-13
- Limit
"You are eligible for one free and one paid trial per user." After a trial ends and you are charged, no refunds are issued except as outlined in the terms.
Source: ancestry.com, verified 2026-10-13
If that fails, escalate
Go up one step at a time. Keep the reference numbers and dates from each contact.
Customer service
Written complaint
OnlineAncestry Account Settings: Membership section > Cancel membership (or Cancel trial) Sign-in requiredCard or bank dispute
Fair Credit Billing Act billing-error and purchase-dispute rights (Regulation Z)
Electronic Fund Transfer Act error resolution and unauthorized-transfer liability (Regulation E)
Card dispute for charges after a cancellation.
Federal regulator
State agency
Your state’s attorney general. Find it in the list of state agencies (also as JSON:
states/<code>.json, for example states/ny.json).
Watch out
- Cancelling online and checking order history need sign-in to the Ancestry account.
- Memberships bought in the Ancestry app are cancelled and refunded only by Apple or Google.
- An invited family plan member cannot cancel; only the purchaser can.
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