Genealogy Chat

Please be careful saying Ancestry seems quite pricy, or you will have Gary B getting shirty with you......!! (everyone else will know what I mean! Please don't be cross Gary, if you read this!) This hobby can become quite expensive, but Ancestry gives you SOOOO much, if your rellies are from Eng Wales......In the past (as Gary will tell you LOL) £60 might be the cost of a UK person finding just one ancestor on a census return (by the time you had visited London or your local County Record Office a few times before you traced them), but that's in the days when it might take you months or even years to cover one or two generations..... Think of it as a £1 a week and it soulds much less!! If you have ancestry you could get away with your only other expense being the odd cert and maybe a will or two. Merry

thanks everyone, 60 quid sounds quite pricey though, it might even be more since i don't live in the UK. aren't there any cheaper ones? and can you get birth certificates and so on from Ancestry or can you only get them from a Records Office? krissie

I have Thomas Jenkins in Wales if thats any comfort!

Hi Krissie, You might find Ancestry useful, they have UK censuses (Except Scotland and Ireland) from 1851 to 1901 but they can be badley transcribed and the 1841 will hopefully go online this year. They also have the Biths, Marriages and Deaths indeces but you need to look at each image and transcriptions are quite bad at times. For Scotland try Scotland People they have Births, Marriages and Deaths as well as census records. If you get stuck just ask! the records board always has people offering to look things up for you. www.ancestry.*co.uk www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ (take the star out of the address) Lunar (who's only Jones' are cousins but has the dreaded Davises and Evans's in Wales) This is the address for the site Heather mentioned with the discount link. www.lostcousins.*com

You can get 20% off ancestry sub if you register free at the Lost Cousins website and click on the ancestry logo on the right. It is the essential pay for site, you wont be able to research much without it.

Ancestry in my opinion is the Best, subscription varies depending on what you want, most do yearly, its in $ but breaks down to about £60 which when you add up your savings, it is Fantastic. For Scotland www(.)scotlandspeople.()gov(.)uk/ is a Pay for view and fantastic too

I would say Ancestry for England and Wales all censuses and much more..£69.95 per year(well worth it).Someone else maybe able to give you a scottish site Zoe

i've got as far as i can using free sites and lots of smashing info from fellow genes reunited pals. which sites should i subscribe to now? and how much do they cost? any recommendations welcome. p.s. i have relations from england, wales [the dreaded jones name] and scotland] krissie