From: "Julie" <[email protected]> > Thank you, Roy, > > I do appreciate your response and your reasons for not using Ancestry. > I try to eat locally whenever possible. > > It was very kind of you to list your favourite sites. Thank you.> Here's a little tip that I can pass on and which I came across entirely by accident. Ancestry will probably kill me if they find out I gave it away but what the heck! If you buy a one-off voucher from Ancestry for £4.95 this entitles you to 10 downloads - in my case usually from the 1851 census and 1871 that I can't obtain elsewhere. However - and here's the interesting thing - even after you have used up your 10 downloads the Ancestry system enables you to get deep inside their indexes for 2 weeks until your access runs out, and very often you can discover who is in a particular household, etc, so you don't need the images. Just thought I'd mention it. You don't need to buy a whole year's subscription if you play clever! -- Roy Stockdill Guild of One-Name Studies: www.one-name.org Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE