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greggs

greggs Report 3 May 2008 00:19

Just going to do an annual subsciption and someone just mentioned findmypast which Ive just looked at

Can anyone tell me which is the best site to subscribe to as Ive used about £50 worth of credits on genes (those £5's tot up quickly! (eeeeekkkkk)

Shall I do

Ancestry.co.uk or

findmypast.com

dont know which is the best!
thanks
c x

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 3 May 2008 00:24

Try the 14 day free trail on Ancestry.

You must remember to cancel this otherwise they will charge you for a subscription.

Researching:
PLEASE DO NOT: send me information concerning your thread on the board as it should be posted on your request where all members can see it. PLEASE DO NOT: ask me for help with lookups as they should be placed on the boards to get the best possible result. PLEASE DO NOT: open your tree just because I have posted information on your thread as I will not be related. THANK YOU. Researching Carter, Cass and Walker in England. Researching Caven, McKill, Sutherland and Will in Scotland.

Gillian

Gillian Report 4 May 2008 18:23

I have had 2 years subscription on find my past and it is superb.
However I have been told by a few reliable sources that Ancestry has more than a few mistranscribed entries!!! and missing ones.
Choice is yours!
Try 6 months on each! then decide
Good luck

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 4 May 2008 21:22

findmypast has address search facility which isn't on Ancestry (except for 1881) but it doesn't yet have all England /Wales censuses in full

Either is preferable to using GR................

silvery33

silvery33 Report 4 May 2008 22:53

I too have considered 'find my past' because someone said that having access to the NBI was great and having to do my research 'long distance' this and the birth and marriage indices would be useful. It is possible to search without accessing the originals so to try it out I put in a living relatives birth and 3 deaths which are known to be correct and none of them was listed. Does anyone have any experience of using these indices on FMP? The sub is quite expensive if it doesn't do what I want.
Forgive me butting in greggs! SM

Researching:
Meadows and Cable & Boast, Suffolk. Smith Stock and Poulter, Essex Blois of Norfolk

Heather

Heather Report 4 May 2008 23:51

If you search the threads on here you will find this question comes up most weeks and the answer is always ancestry. Take the 14 day free trial - you would have got your £50 worth of GR info free if you had done so before. There is so much on there other than just the 1841-1901 census. Your £50 would have paid for nearly a year of 24/7 unrestricted searches.

greggs

greggs Report 5 May 2008 22:29

I decided to go with Ancestry as my trial period was almost up. Its my birthday this week so when my son asked me what I wanted this was a perfect pressie!

I started GR as a bit of fun but didnt realise how quick the credits would run out and as they are 'only' £5 a time it was only when I totted them up realised how much I had spent --- An expensive mistake but of course when you start out you don't quite realise how addictive it really is!

I'm well and truly hooked now :oD