Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 3:04 pm Post subject: Ancestry
I think quite a few people who use the forum use Ancestry. Although you sometimes have to be a bit adventurous with your search on census without this site I wouldn't have found half of the ancestors I have. Some have moved so far from their birth place between census that it would have meant a trek around Britain to root them out.
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yes some of the transcriptions are hilarious / infuriating. I've lost count of the amendments I've submitted (though I often find Steve Baxter has beaten me to it )
There's quite a bit of talk on the forums about their re-vamping of subscriptions. Apparently people have had things (eg Pallots, Ships' Lists) removed from their subs and they have had to "upgrade" to get them back. Hasn't happened to me (yet) but must be annoying.
Also looks like they won't have the 1911 census for some time, as Findmypast have got that contract. I'll start a new thread for them!
before you could only find someone after around 1920 by ploughing through the original scans. You could not search eg for yourself & go straight to the record (unless by chance freebmd had got that far or you are really old ) Now the whole lot from 1916 onwards is fully indexed, so you can look for, say, all Smiths born 1916 onwards whose mother's maiden name was Jones and registered in Lancashire
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Brian means you get them up without having to trail through pages.
Just had a quick look and my brothers birth 1944 came up . This will be a lot quicker.
Must have only just happened .
Germaine
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ah Brian expained it better than me and while I was looking
Yesterday I had hoped to get family history done but.I couldn't use Ancestry to search for births in the 1837-1984 part. Obviously they are either doing work or that part has now gone. I suppose this means we are left with Free BMD - which I object to paying Ancestry to use when I can use it for free anyway.
Hope this is a minor glitch. I'm still considering changing to Findmypast
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check the FMP census coverage before you jump the Ancestry ship
They only have 2 1851 census counties, and are still way short of full 1901 coverage (neither has Lancashire). Also their 1881 coverage does not have images (I think it's a copyright issue with LDS and / or Ancestry)
On the plus side you can do address searches for all years (except 1881!), which is only available for 1881 on Ancestry
Oh thanks for that Brian. I had thought about buying some credits and seeing what it was like. Wasn't so keen when I saw that you had to have the full subscription to get everything
The 1881 census is freely available so it wouldn't bother me
But not having such a full coverage for other things would so its nice to find someone who has experience shall we say
I'm having lots of fun on the 1911 index though - thanks to you tip
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I had an Ancestry subscription a few years ago and found the site easy to use. Last year I decided to give The Genealogist a try instead and once I got used to it was happy with that. My membership has just expired, so I thought I would have another look at Ancestry before renewing. It seems less easy to search now. Also have some of the census returns disappeared?
I haven't had problems with the census but they seem to be messing round with the GRO birth index. While it is fine that we can now search for a birth using Mothers maiden name for example - and instead of having to trawl though pages and pages each year we get just those in that name - I'm not happy about the way those pre 1920 are available only on FreeBMD. I often use FreeBMD but have to check things in the actual GRO pages.
I have never used The Genealogist - maybe you can start a thread and tell us all what you thought about that and why you are considering changing?
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Maybe they will add them now.................