Genealogy Chat

I tried doing the same, Brenda, with no luck either. I shall be rather niggled if I am now bombarded with email/mail rubbish, having to add my address, phone number etc. I have given up, and think I shall just stick to Ancestry......... Chris

They won't let any new people register at all now, can we have them under the Trade Description Act? It hasn't been 24 hours yet!

I dont know why they name it British origins, it should be London Origins.

I thought that I'll take advantage of the free access. As an Ancestry member I already have access to census returns, so was interested in the other databases they have. Been searching these and haven't found anything. They could do with adding a lot more, for a wider period of time and for all counties. Yes I am disappointed.

RUBBISH....................

I have taken some information off there, but to be honest, if I had paid for it I would have been disappointed. There are no Census records for the northeast of England and the Irish records, although interesting, are too vague to be of much use (not that it is the fault of the site).

Lynn, I find the British Origins part useful for London ancestors, especially the marriage licence allegations indexes, but I have had a quick look at Irish Origins today on the free access and not really found anything useful except a Griffith's Valuation entry for one of my partner's ancestors which I already had from somewhere else anyway. I find Griffith's Valuation is only useful if the person you are looking for had a very unusual name or you already know exactly where they lived. Otherwise how do you know which entry is the right one? Kate.

I found that the irish stuff was quite vague, particularly if you are looking at a common name, but i suppose that is just how the records are. I know that I won't bother subscribing!

Not a lot at the moment! Jay

Only managed to access the site properly about 15 minutes ago. Searched for hubby's Irish ancestors in Griffith's Valuation. Found a few possible matches and before I could look at anything in more detail the site seems to have crashed. So seems it may be useful in theory, but useless in practice unfotunately.

I was interested in the free access today, but was disappointed that there were problems getting in initially. However, when I did get in, I managed to finding a missing person from 1841, Drake had been transcribed as Dicke! I didn't find much else of use though, what does anyone else think?