The Ancestry.co.uk website

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Simply telephone the 24/7 free number 0800 404 9723 and speak to one of their very courteous and highly efficient advisers to arrange a subscription with immediate effect.

There are various types of subscription – I generally request a one-month (calendar month) Worldwide membership which currently [Apr 2016] costs just under £20 (no surcharge for credit-card payment), and specify that it's not to auto-renew (as I sometimes go for months without needing to consult it again).

I personally use it only for reference, but there are a good many excellently constructed family trees on it plus access to probate records, and purchase of birth, marriage and death certificates. I always go straight to the "Search all available records" for starters

IMHO it's light-years ahead of other such sites.