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I'm thinking of buying a subscription to one of the online sites such as Ancestry and Find My Past. Any recommendations from people already using one of these sites would be most helpful. Thanks Keith

Keith, Not knowing what and where you are researching makes it difficult to give a good recommendation. I am finding I often use familysearch.org to start my search and then findmypast to find and trace families via the census but I have also used Ancestry to start with. The biggest problem I have found with any site is mistakes whether it was the census enumerator, the person giving the information, transcription error or even the parish records as often the record was not written down at the time of the ceremony. My Charlton family has been written with expected Charteton and variations but also Carlton and Charton to give you an example. My suggestion would be to try one for a period of time then switch to the other if you get too frustrated with the difficulty of judging where there is an error. Genealogy is like doing a jigsaw puzzle that you are missing pieces and when you find the missing piece you find you are missing more pieces. Christene On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Keith <km004d7392@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > I'm thinking of buying a subscription to one of the online sites such > as Ancestry and Find My Past.  Any recommendations from people already > using one of these sites would be most helpful. > > Thanks Keith > > ------------------------------------- > The only List that specifically covers the whole of the Black Country. Run by Black Country folk who were born and still live in the area. > ****************************** > ATTENTION TO ALL:- When replying please remove the details that do not apply to your mail and change the SUBJECT LINE for best useage of ARCHIVED MATERIALS. > ------------------------------- > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-BLACK-COUNTRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

On 24/10/2011 14:35, Keith wrote: Often available free is Ancestry e.g Birmingham bob holmes O > I'm thinking of buying a subscription to one of the online sites such > as Ancestry and Find My Past. Any recommendations from people already > using one of these sites would be most helpful. > > Thanks Keith > > ------------------------------------- > The only List that specifically covers the whole of the Black Country. Run by Black Country folk who were born and still live in the area. > ****************************** > ATTENTION TO ALL:- When replying please remove the details that do not apply to your mail and change the SUBJECT LINE for best useage of ARCHIVED MATERIALS. > ------------------------------- > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-BLACK-COUNTRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >