To add my sixpence worth: One minor advantage FMP has over A*Y is the ability to SORT the results into some sort of order of use to the user, rather than relevant to the programmer. I do hate the clunkiness of looking for newspapers on FMP - after every filter added it goes and does a search; and if you want a second search there doesn't seem to be an easy way to remove the filters and begin again. Why can't it be like the BNA site or the other site for British Papers through the Gale Group where you can put in all the filters and then let it search - much more efficient. I hate the way FMP automatcially saves everything you've ever looked at - I think I have 280 pages! of meaningless stuff accumulating like carpet fluff. But both sites do have some useful datasets - especially if it's not feasible to travel to the record office which holds the originals. I do prefer the way FMP sets out its census transcripts, much easier to copy and paste from that format than from A*Y - but the layout of transcripts of other datasets takes up way too much space and at times doesn't seem to be in a logical order. And while not liking the look and workings of the "new and improved" FMP site, another gripe is that their A-Z record sets don't give enough information as to dates the dataset covers or even what county some datasets are - non UK residents aren't always au fait with what town/village is in which county. Nor are FMP even in the race when it comes to giving source citations - both A*Y and familysearch run rings around them, both of these giving really good source citations. Also both FMP and A*Y every couple of months make the assumption that because I live in Australia I must automatically want Australian records and try to re-direct me to that part of the site, even though I have a purely UK subscription. Never seems to occur to them many Australians (and New Zealanders/Canadians/Americans etc) have ancestors in UK and elsewhere - except when they try to encourage us to take out a worldwide subscription. Overall though whoever does their transcriptions seems more accurate than whoever does them for A*Y; and FMP seems faster, generally, in applying amendments. Also have just found FMP has re-ticked the "auto renew" option in my account - which I have had unticked for quite a long time. Not happy with that. Off soapbox. Alison :-) Sydney Australia --------------------------

As I started this discussion I thought I would say the point I was trying to make is If you put a search in even if you narrow it down to a one year census search FMP still wasn't coming up with people like Ancestry was & as I was searching for details of which I had so knew they were there so comparing the two I find that FMP don't come up with results like Ancestry & had I not known they were there & only looked on FMP I would may have given up the way they have their results are very poor compared to ancestry they may very well have the records but trying to find them is another story What I have had to do is look on Ancestry to narrow down then ones I wish to look at as I don't have subscription for Ancestry I then have to try to get the same ones come up on FMP this is something I don't think I should be doing just to find information that already on their site but their results don't come up with it unless I have nearly got every thing Regards Janice