Thank you for the useful information that one can get a free look up on Ancestry from a library in London. Charles Expatriot Yorkshireman Suffolk UK ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Stockdill" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 1:37 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-YKS-BRADFORD] 1901 census look up From: "Glenys Thornton" <[email protected]> > I really shouldn't read emails in the early hours (just after minight > here) especially NOT from Roy Stockdill whose attitude constntly winds > me up! For one who is allegedly so knowledgeable he has missed the > fact that Ancestry is currently providing free access to the 1901 > census on its uk site. It doesn't offer the complete transcript but > sufficient to give names. ages, places of birth and the vital > references to enable others to help.> Glenys But it doesn't enable you to get addresses for named people, which is what the OP was asking. In any cases, you know perfectly well that Ancestry doesn't give anything for nothing! In the old saying, there's no such thing as a free lunch. Eventually, whatever you may think you are getting gratis, they will want you to sign up for a year's subscription and it's my experience that they want your credit card number before you get even a so-called "free trial". I have been told by others that once they get your card number, you can have the devil's own problems in cancelling. That is why I much prefer to support British firms like 1837online, Origins, etc. Before too long, all the censuses will be online at a number of different sites and we won't need an American multinational like Ancestry. That is why, on the rare occasions I do need access to a census I can't get elsewhere, I prefer to buy a one-off voucher that affords you 10 downloads for £4.95. Despite their regular entreaties, I will not take out an annual subscription with them. I would also take a modest bet that somewhere in the Ancestry small print it states that a subscription is for the user of ONE user only and that multiple look-ups for others are specifically forbidden. In any case, libraries and record offices around the world now provide free access to Ancestry - the SoG and FRC in London do, for instance - so it is open to anyone to find a library that has this access and do the look-ups for themselves. -- 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

From: "Charles Greenhough" > Thank you for the useful information that one can get a free look up > on Ancestry from a library in London. > > Charles > Expatriot Yorkshireman > Suffolk UK I am quite certain that if you look locally you will find a library somewhere not far from you that has it. For instance, my local library in Watford, Herts, has access to Ancestry and it is increasingly being offered around the country. You simply need to ask someone! -- 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