I am just starting to use the internet for genealogy and am having a terrific time looking at everything that is out there. I have just discovered Ancestry.co.uk which is offering the 1891 census. Is this the full census or just part of it? There are three pieces of information in that census which could be very worthwhile for me to find. I see that they are offering a two-week trial but are asking for a credit card number. The way I read it I can go in there for trial period, retrieve my stuff and then cancel my subscription. I don't want to come across as a cheap scape but I know I would never use it for anywhere near the amount that they are asking for a year's subscription. Has anyone else cancelled on them before the end of the trial? Did they have trouble with charges to their credit card? Is this site the same as the regular Ancestry? My local family history center has a subscription to this site and I can log on there for 50 cents per hour. I would really appreciate some answers to my questions. Lynda in Montreal

"Lynda Minarzick" <minarzick@sympatico.ca> wrote..... > I am just starting to use the internet for genealogy and am having > a terrific time looking at everything that is out there. I have > just discovered Ancestry.co.uk which is offering the 1891 census. > > Is this the full census or just part of it? There are three > pieces of information in that census which could be very > worthwhile for me to find. I see that they are offering a > two-week trial but are> asking for a credit card number. The way > I read it I can go in there for trial period, retrieve my stuff > and then cancel my subscription. I don't want to come across as a > cheap scape but I know I would never use it for anywhere near the > amount that they are asking for a year's subscription. Has anyone > else I would really appreciate some answers to my questions.> I WILL perhaps be careful in what I say, but I have to tell you that in the UK Ancestry.com has a rather poor reputation. I have heard numerous horror stories of people who have fallen for their so-called "free trial", then had an annual subscription taken from their credit card and found it the devil's own job to cancel it (especially if you live outside America). Moreover, much of the data they wish to charge you for is available free elsewhere, if you look around carefully. I don't much care for their methods of selling genealogical data like soap powder or hamburgers and I wouldn't touch them with a bargepole, frankly. However, it's a matter only the individual can decide upon. I might just add that if you are talking about the 1891 census for Yorkshire (which presumably you are, as you are posting to a Yorkshire list) then you can buy this on a set of 31 CDs for the whole county. It costs £49.95, but at least you will have it for ever more and be able to use it as often as you like, rather than having to pay out annually to an American corporate multiple that regards genealogical data purely as a business. If you want to know how to buy the 1891 census for Yorkshire on CD, feel free to ask and I or someone will tell you. Alternatively, someone might be willing to do a lookup for you if you post full details. Roy Stockdill (Editor, Journal of One-Name Studies) Guild of One-Name Studies:- www.one-name.org Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History:- www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html Never ask a man if he comes from Yorkshire. If he does he will tell you, if he does not why humiliate him? - Canon Sydney Smith