I concur with everything Antony has said. Ancestry's collection is huge (although the standard of the indexing leaves something to be desired). You may find that your local library has free access to Ancestry (some have FMP and The Genealogist too), so perhaps you can use Ancestry for free and subscribe to FMP. Some of the Mormon Church's Family History Centres have free access too. You might consider six months with each site: if you buy Family Tree Maker Platinum, it comes with six months' Ancestry membership (which is much cheaper than a direct subscription). At the end of that time - don't forget to cancel your membership - flip over to FMP. Another alternative is to subscribe to FMP but have an occasional month's membership of Ancestry. HTH Kim in Hull

Both have pros and cons. FMP is getting some useful sets of data and depends a lot on whether one that you need. They have less fields available for searching in many sets of data like parish records. With censuses you can search Ancestry on first name and perhaps just place of birth. A similar search on FMP will probably fail (not sure if you can search with no surname?). Martin Briscoe Fort William [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kim Semmence Sent: 27 October 2012 18:24 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ENG-LIV] Ancestry -v- Find My Past. I concur with everything Antony has said. Ancestry's collection is huge (although the standard of the indexing leaves something to be desired). You may find that your local library has free access to Ancestry (some have FMP and The Genealogist too), so perhaps you can use Ancestry for free and subscribe to FMP. Some of the Mormon Church's Family History Centres have free access too.

Both can be used for free at your local LDS family history library. David Armstrong Maylands, Western Australia