William, I am an avid user of scotlandspeople and it has been a very good experience. I find that most everything is available freely on the IGI (but they did miss a few!) I do not have much time as I have a day job and find scotlandspeople more convenient. I will say, living in the USA, I have had a very good experience with it. To everyone on this list, I am visiting the Highlands in May. I plan to hit as many cemeteries as I can find in the area, Nairn / Inverness. I can not promise much as I have never been to Scotland and do not know what I will find there, but I would be more than happy to provide photos of the MI's of the cemeteries that are in the area. Kind regards, Sherry Researching: CALDER / LAMB / MACKINTOSH ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Innes" <w.innes@sympatico.ca> To: <MORAY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 8:36 PM Subject: [MORAY] ScotlandsPeople > Tried to acces this site at 8:30 pm but could not. > > Earlier I was able to access and get, for 1 credit, the death of Elspet > Innes who died in 1934 in Glenlivet Banff. I then wanted to view for 5 > credits and it showed the wrong death certificate. What came up was the > first name on the list of McHardy which was not what I was looking for. > > At the beginning of this session I had 9 credits and used 1 for the above > Elspet and 5 to view same. > > I would like to have my 5 credits back so I can retry to view. > > William Innes in montreal > > ==== MORAY Mailing List ==== > " Reply All " ........Please, please, please, when replying to a posted > message make sure that the reply is sent to the list and not just the > sender of the message. This is done by clicking " Reply All " Thank you > ;-) > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > >

I guess it is better than nothing, but to me it is incredibly expensive, and there are only 3 (I think) census years on it. When I compare it to ancestry.com, it retards research so much in comparison. I can sit and page through 150 pages of the entire Brooklyn, New York 1850 census in one evening on ancestry.com -- that's the original images I'm talking about. I can review the whole neighborhood. Then I can jump to any of the other years, or nearby areas, or quickly peruse the whole state for a certain name, and quickly look at the originals for those records. All this for $100 a year. I can spend hours reading the census every night if I want to. And I do spend a lot of time on it, it probably comes out to pennies per image. And there are some Canadian and UK censuses on it also. The contrast with Scotland's People is huge. I hope someday ancestry.com will get the Scottish censuses, or is it an issue that the government will not release them to private companies? And many people are doing a wonderful job getting some of them up for free, if they still need help when I retire I would like to help with that. Holly East Bangor, PA , > > I am an avid user of scotlandspeople and it has been a very good > experience. > I find that most everything is available freely on the IGI (but they did > miss a few!) I do not have much time as I have a day job and find > scotlandspeople more convenient. I will say, living in the USA, I have > had > a very good experience with it. >