On 04/28/2010 08:18 PM, Brian wrote: > On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:26:38 -0400, Mick<mickg01@verizon.net> wrote: > > >> The fact that FamilySearch has a great deal of information that is not >> available on Ancestry doesn't mean it automatically has all the >> information that IS available on Ancestry. >> >> There are caveats due to the nature of FamilySearch and how much of its >> information is gathered. You need to learn how to use it and what is >> reliable and what is less so. However it is a valuable research source. >> I tend to go for other verification once FamilySearch data gives me new >> information to follow up on. > > I don't expect it to have all of the information but am trying to > determine what I'm doing wrong since I can never get anything to come > up even though it seems like they should like, i would assume, census > information. > Ancestry comes up with many possible hits, usually too many, but > familysearch comes up with 0. Actually the last time I went there FamilySearch has very little in the way of non-us census data except for the UK 1881 with the weirdest search engine. Much of what they have (after the often very unreliable 'member submissions') is parish record transcriptions. The more vague your search the better as some of their transcribers were somewhat prone to error.

On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:41:18 -0400, Mick <mickg01@verizon.net> wrote: >Actually the last time I went there FamilySearch has very little in the >way of non-us census data except for the UK 1881 with the weirdest >search engine. My ancestors were here by then but there could well have been other relatives still there but I have no idea about their names at this point. > >Much of what they have (after the often very unreliable 'member >submissions') is parish record transcriptions. The more vague your >search the better as some of their transcribers were somewhat prone to >error. How can I make it more vague? I've tried just putting in a name with no other information and nothing came up. Parish records would potentially be helpful.