Genealogy Chat

Thanks Annie

When you have pressed search, does it bring up something like this? View Record George Adams abt 1858 Fareham, Hampshire, England Son Alverstoke Hampshire View image Have you pressed on the view image? If you are not seeing an image it could be that you need to download the viewer. It should tell you that somewhere on the screen. Kat

Hi everyone again... I just joined up to the free trial with Ancestry and found no difference to looking up to before I did the free trial. I must be doing something wrong...

Thanks again everybody this is great

I have just subscribed and should have done at the start!!

Katrina, dont choose the world deluxe or american one. Go to Lost Cousins site, register free, then click on the ancestry logo on the right hand side - you get a year for £55

Dear Katrina I have the monthly membership and its very good value, as another newbie I have found its very educational as well.

If you subscribe to Ancestry through Lost Cousins, you get a big discount - it costs something like £50 instead of £70: http://www.lostcousins*com (replace the asterisk with a dot)

Katrina - If you're only given a choice between a World Deluxe and a US Deluxe membership. you've probably logged on to Ancestry*com. Try logging on to Ancestry*co*uk instead, and you should have the option of a UK Deluxe membership. As far as I know, the US membership lets you see US records, the UK membership lets you see UK records, and the World membership lets you see all records (there are memberships for other countries as well). If you've got a US membership, for example, I think you can still search the UK records, but you don't get details (such as city or year), nor can you access scanned images, etc... Unless you're actively searching in two or more countries (and the UK encompasses England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales), I don't think that you'd need a World membership. My opinion, for what it's worth - Tim in Canada

Familysearch.org which is the mormon site has free access to U.K. 1881 and Canada and U.S.A. 1880 very useful for relatives who may have emigrated. It also has the IGI free and is very easy to use. There research tips are very good.

Thanks Phoenix I will give it a go.

I would like to point out that you can access all the census INDEXES for free. Use this link: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/census/ click on the census you want to check. You will have to register, but you can then do some searching. The indexes don't show everything, but you can do sophisticated searches. You can look for everyone in a village, all the females called Amelia aged 20 etc etc. It is foolish to use the indexes by themselves, because you can easily make mistakes (my possible candidate for a mistranscribed Queen Victoria turned out to be a washerwoman in the East End!) but for anyone who can't afford to subscribe at present, you can extract a great deal of information for free.

I just went on to Ancestry subsription and it has two sections I can subscribe to 1. World Deluxe 2. US Deluxe does anybody know if there is actually any difference.

Personally, I think the monthly subscription to Ancestry (£8.75, I believe) is the most cost-effective way to make use of their resources. I'm mainly interested in the census images (I can get BMD info from FreeBMD, since I'm not interested in post-1983 data), and in the course of one month I downloaded and saved nearly 200 pages, covering all of the relatives I knew about at the time (and a few 'possibles' with the right surnames in the right villages). If, after another 6 months or so, I discover more family branches that I was previously unaware of, or if they start providing access to another significant database (like the 1841 census), then I would certainly sign up for another month and download like mad again. The only catch is that they will automatically renew your membership at the end of the month unless you specifically tell them not to (you can send the cancellation message as soon as you wish, and still make use of the full month's membership). Tim in Canada

I think you will find that the 1881 search and transcription is free on Ancestry, but you do have to pay to look at the images of it. Kate.

You can't get any better value really though. The bmd index is free but everything else is only via the sub,BUT there are more than just bmd and census. BMD from 1984 to 2002,Pallotts Mareriage Index,Probate Records etc. Glen

Katrina Copy this into your address bar http://www.ancestry.*co.uk/search/rectype/vital/freebmd/bmd.aspx( Remove the *) Enter a name and it will allow you to sign in as a guest,FOR FREE You can then view BMD images1837-1983 BMD(ex freebmd)1837-1910 approx. Ancestry world tree(as Rootsweb) 1881 census(Courtesy LDS) Latterday Saints insist that Ancestry do not charge for 1881

Hi I'm really confused - my membership to ancestry ran out in February but I am still able to use the 1881 census on there - last time I used it the searches were not working properly on that census, so have been using the site mentioned by Reggie etc Jo

Thanks everyone... looks inevitable that you need to sign up to get any info for the Ancestry site.

Via Ancestry you would need to subscribe too view ANY census. 1841,51,61,71,81,91 and 1901. As Reggie says the 1881 is free via the site posted in the first thread. Glen