<<snipped>> Ancestry has added this set of records. England, Select Cheshire, School Records, 1796-1950 Not sure what is the significance of 'Select', they have a lot showing that and added in the last day. <<snipped>> These are part of the results of the co-operation between Ancestry and FamilySearch. It's just a copy of the FS index. "Select" is presumably Ancestry covering themselves by implying these are just "selected" records, not necessarily all. Ancestry's info on the dataset says: "About England, Select Cheshire, School Records, 1796-1950 "This collection includes school record entries from Cheshire, England. "You can learn more about this collection at the FamilySearch website." Nothing will show on Ancestry that isn't on FS. There are advantages to being able to search from Ancestry (or vice versa, when FS is able to search Ancestry data) - if you're used to one search mechanism, then you can continue to use it without moving. Also, I have just looked at one set of results on one (other Cheshire) dataset and the Ancestry results are - with the peculiar exception of the first 5 - in date order, whereas FS programmers can't seem to do anything other than throw the stuff at the screen in random order. I might, therefore, be able to tick off Cheshire baptisms (say) for one family against my sources to ensure I've got them all. NB - on the name and dataset that I chose, I got 317 answers on Ancestry, in date order apart from the first 5, versus 366 on FS, in random order. I suspect the difference is entirely accounted for by Ancestry's surname selection on phonetic matching being tighter than FS's matching of surnames. Adrian B

There is a copy of an admission register 1873-1906 lodged in Ellesmere Port library,Cheshire record office and the Boat Museum. It relates to Ellesmere Port National School, later Christ Church Primary. It is searchable by surname,fathers occupation and address. I also hold a copy if anyone needs a family lookup Gill Sent from my iPad On 22 Jan 2014, at 10:54, "Adrian Bruce" <abruce@madasafish.com> wrote: > <<snipped>> > Ancestry has added this set of records. > England, Select Cheshire, School Records, 1796-1950 > Not sure what is the significance of 'Select', they have a lot showing that > and added in the last day. > <<snipped>> > > These are part of the results of the co-operation between Ancestry and > FamilySearch. It's just a copy of the FS index. "Select" is presumably > Ancestry covering themselves by implying these are just "selected" records, > not necessarily all. Ancestry's info on the dataset says: > > "About England, Select Cheshire, School Records, 1796-1950 > "This collection includes school record entries from Cheshire, England. > "You can learn more about this collection at the FamilySearch website." > > Nothing will show on Ancestry that isn't on FS. There are advantages to > being able to search from Ancestry (or vice versa, when FS is able to search > Ancestry data) - if you're used to one search mechanism, then you can > continue to use it without moving. Also, I have just looked at one set of > results on one (other Cheshire) dataset and the Ancestry results are - with > the peculiar exception of the first 5 - in date order, whereas FS > programmers can't seem to do anything other than throw the stuff at the > screen in random order. I might, therefore, be able to tick off Cheshire > baptisms (say) for one family against my sources to ensure I've got them > all. > > NB - on the name and dataset that I chose, I got 317 answers on Ancestry, in > date order apart from the first 5, versus 366 on FS, in random order. I > suspect the difference is entirely accounted for by Ancestry's surname > selection on phonetic matching being tighter than FS's matching of surnames. > > Adrian B > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CHESHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message