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. Julie Kane ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Stockdill" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 9:34 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-YKS-BRADFORD] Dating photos and photographers. > From: "Julie" <[email protected]> > >> Hello Roy, >> >> Would you be willing to list your top five favourite sites? Whenever >> I see your name I always read your emails with the understanding that >> I will often learn something new. Thanks for the Historical >> Directories site. It's a wealth of information. >> >> Julie Kane > > The sites I use the most are not necessarily my favourite ones, however > this is because these are the ones I need to use, inevitably, as a near- > professional genealogist. I will have to list more than 5 but here are the > Top 10 I use constantly, some of them umpteen times a day...... > > FamilySearch - http://www.familysearch.org/ > > FreeBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl > > 1837online - http://www.1837online.com/HomeServlet > > 1901 census - http://www.1901censusonline.com/ > > The National Archives - > http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/ > > FamilyHistoryOnline - http://www.familyhistoryonline.net/ > > Digital Library of Historical Directories - > http://www.historicaldirectories.org/ > > UKBMD - http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/index.php > > Access to Archives - http://www.a2a.org.uk/ > > Genuki Yorkshire - http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ > > Here's my favourite site when I just want to browse, read some > fascinating court cases from the Old Bailey and have fun... > > http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/ > > You will note I don't list Ancestry! This is because I prefer to support > British pay-per-view sites (like 1837online and FamilyHistoryOnline) > whenever possible and I only use Ancestry occasionally by buying 10 > one-off images from a census the others haven't yet got or I might use > the indexes; however, I am trying very hard not to give them a year's > subscription! As a heavy user of 1837online, I have a deal that allows me > unlimited access to virtually all their records and I rarely need > Ancestry. > > -- > 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 > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.12.12/461 - Release Date: 10/2/2006 >