Thanks David,
Good news and not so good news, I don't get the error anymore but I nothing happens either, I had the feeling that WWW::Mechanize should fire up the web browser... Have I misunderstood...?
One other thing, If you take look at source of $url the website has a "form tag" before the form that I want to use... in that case should be using (2)..? 
my $url = 'http://www.ancestry.com/';
my $mechObject = WWW::Mechanize->new();

$mechObject->get($url);
die "can't get page!" 
  unless $mechObject->success;
  
die "can't find form!"
  unless $mechObject->form_number(0);

my @values = ('learn', 'perl', [option => 'M']);
die "couldn't fill out form!"
  unless $mechObject->set_visible(@values) == 3;

$mechObject->submit;
die "can't submit form!" 
  unless $mechObject->success;

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