I have to correct myself and refer to Ancestry.co.uk of which I am subscribed. Sorry for the error. Shirley ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jenny DA" <jennyda@telefonica.net> To: "Caroline Bradford" <caroline.bradford@btinternet.com>; "'Sally-Ann Jay'" <sally-ann@chairwoman.plus.com>; <Essex-UK@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 1:02 PM Subject: Re: [Ess] Which subscription? >I would agree with Caroline and choose Ancestry, to which I have been > subscribed for a few years now. > > What I would add to Caroline's information is that you should be aware > that > there are two Ancestry sites to choose from. > > One is Ancestry.co.uk which covers just UK records. If you find your > ancestors stayed put in the UK without ever emigrating then this part of > Ancestry would be the better choice as it is cheaper than the fuller > package > at Ancestry.com. which has records for not only the UK but other > countries, > mostly the USA, too. > > It depends what sort of records you are after, if you want to find your > families in all the UK census then it has to be Ancestry as they have all > censuses from 1841-1901 and once you have bought a subscription there is > no > limit to the number of images you can view during that subscription > period. > This is useful if you are just starting out and need to find many families > throughout the various censuses, especially if you have common names such > as > Smith, Brown or Jones etc. > > You have to be fairly flexible in your thinking at times with the indexing > on ancestry, but then all transcribers should only copy down things as > they > see them and should never ever make guesses at what something should read > as. This is how I see the indexing on Ancestry, it is indexed as it > appeared to the transcribers/indexers. I have compared transcriptions of > one or two of my families on both sites in the 1861 & 1871 censuses and > found there is nothing to choose between them, they were transcribed > exactly > the same on both site. > > Ancestry also has the GRO index, as well as the FreeBMD trancription, up > until fairly recent times, there is no limit to how many images of the GRO > index you can view with your subscription. There are other resources on > Ancestry that may be of interest to you. > > I occassionally buy a few units on findmypast as and when I need to look > there but have never subscribed for any length of time as most of their > resources are of no interest to me. It is personal needs really. As > Caroline said FMP subscriptions will not cover the 1911 census, this will > have to be paid for separately by pay per view units, to begin with at > least. > > Have a look at the content of each site to see what they offer and of how > much use you think those contents would be to you, then make your choice, > only you can decide. > > Regards > Jenny DeAngelis > Spain. > > Caroline wrote. >> So, if I had to stick my neck out, I would say subscribe to Ancestry, but >> accept that it does not have everything you may need and be prepared to >> spend elsewhere when necessary. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Any problems, please contact the List Admin: Essex-UK-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ESSEX-UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message