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Title: What Sites Do You Use ?
Post by: AndrewJPAS on Sunday 01 April 07 23:09 BST (UK)
As i'm pretty new to this i have only signed up to one site, that being findmypast.com, the problem i am finding though is that i am getting so many search results that i would have to use £25.00 of credits just to view them all and even then there is no guarantee i would find what i'm looking for.

Are there any other sites that can be recommended by those with more experience.

many thanks

Andrew
Title: Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
Post by: Shropshire Lass on Sunday 01 April 07 23:14 BST (UK)
I use Ancestry.  I didn't subscribe for ages because I wasn't sure how useful it would be but I'm on it all the time.  It has saved me so much money that I would have spent on the sites I was using before I took the plunge.

Monica
Title: Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
Post by: w105uk aka Margi :-) on Sunday 01 April 07 23:18 BST (UK)
you could always try ancestry's free trial..............

or just a monthly subscription to start with to see how much you use it

they are very good at cancelling when asked  ;D ;D
Title: Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
Post by: Pegasuss on Sunday 01 April 07 23:24 BST (UK)
I use:

Ancestry(Guest Sub at the Moment!)

FreeBDM

IGI

A2A

Familyrelatives.org

Genes

& a few others I can't at the Minute Remember? (Scatterbrain that I Am!) ::)
Title: Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
Post by: w105uk aka Margi :-) on Sunday 01 April 07 23:31 BST (UK)
all those and

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/default.asp


and of course

ROOTS
Title: Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
Post by: Pegasuss on Sunday 01 April 07 23:37 BST (UK)
all those and

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/default.asp


and of course

ROOTS
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Thats the IGI site I am Registered on!

Did I forget to Add Roots as Well! :-[ ::) ;)]
Title: Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
Post by: w105uk aka Margi :-) on Sunday 01 April 07 23:38 BST (UK)
and then there are those sites which are local

eg local family history etc

and a good resource of websites is

http://www.cyndislist.com/
Title: Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
Post by: w105uk aka Margi :-) on Sunday 01 April 07 23:41 BST (UK)

IGI


I just thought that like me when I first started I hadn't a clue what IGI was   :-[ :-[

and 'scatterbrained'
same here esp at this time of night. ;D
Title: Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
Post by: Springbok on Monday 02 April 07 00:05 BST (UK)
I have an enormous list but basically the Paying ones are Ancestry(years

sub). GenesReunited(which can be a pain but i have had all of my contacts,

and added some 1,500 relation via that site) A few credits on 1837(findmypast) ,which I only rarely use to confirm a BMD finding( not to Trawl

through.)

Rootsweb can be difficult to start with, but it is sometimespossible to find your family ancestors on there.

Spring
Title: Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
Post by: Tephra on Monday 02 April 07 07:29 BST (UK)



I don't have very many, and certainly not many pay sites, it just get's tooooooo expensive.

I use Ancestry.  IGI.   Rootsweb and of course  FreeBMD.

I'd love to be able to use them all but as with mose people is should imagine, finances dictate otherwise.      :'( :'( :'(


Barbara         
Title: Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
Post by: newbie on Monday 02 April 07 07:32 BST (UK)
If you like find my past you may consider one of their subscription packages? that might work out cheaper. Otherwise, you do find "paying as go" can soon eat into your bank balance.
I use Ancestry at about £70.oo per annum well worth it for a uk sub, all of the England and Wales census information, 1901 - 1841, some of the Scottish census, Freebmd is also on their site, and the GRO Index Birth Marriages and death, 1837 - 1983, and 1984 - 2004(?), Pallotts Marriage Index and they are adding the BT phone books, (very useful) ,
try a free trial?  I use it every day !

newbie
Title: Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
Post by: kerryb on Monday 02 April 07 08:51 BST (UK)
Newbie beat me to it! ;D ;D ;D

I have taken a subscription out with findmypast because I find them so much better and more accurate in terms of transcription than ancestry.   They are also bringing on board this year the remaining census years.

Kerry
Title: Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
Post by: Lydart on Monday 02 April 07 09:41 BST (UK)
Ancestry (yearly subscription)

IGI (free ... but accuracy a bit suspect at times)

Lost Cousins (subs ... but they are still lost !)

Rootsweb

Free BMD

Online Parish Clerks scheme ... very good for some counties (free)

and of course ROOTSCHAT (the best !).

I've found more thru this site than through all the others put together.

Title: Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
Post by: Thisty on Monday 02 April 07 10:26 BST (UK)
Mainly rootschat :) I find the people here more helpful than all the other sites put together.

Ancestry for the English side of my family

Scotlands People for the Scottish side

Genes Reunited although I am starting to get annoyed with finding definate matches in other people's tree's and having them never reply to my messages lol

And probably a few others that I pop onto from time to time
Title: Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
Post by: kerryb on Monday 02 April 07 10:52 BST (UK)
Another site that I use a lot is www.familyhistoryonline.co.uk but as to how useful it will be for you depends very much on which counties you are looking at.

Sussex where most of my family comes from has a huge number of parish records pre 1837 on there, Middlesex does not.  It's a bit hit and miss but can be very useful and is fairly cheap to look at records.  It becomes expensive when you use it a lot.

Kerry
Title: Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
Post by: acceber on Monday 02 April 07 11:37 BST (UK)
I use most of the sites already mentioned:

ancestry.co.uk :- Good value for money with the amount of records they hold e.g all the census' up to 1901, phone directories, newspapers. Worth trying a free trial

freebmd.rootsweb.com :- A free volunteer project to record the Birth Marriage and Death indexes from 1837+, almost totally complete up to 1912 and is searchable by surname, forname and county or registration district. This will save you loads of money rather than using findmypast! - Ancestry has all the BMD indexes but you have to manually search the ones that freebmd have not yet transcribed so looking for a record on there can be quite labourious!

freereg.org.uk :- Free parish records, but quite new so not many records yet

ukbmd.org.uk (then the Local BMD tab) :- Links to Birth Marriage and Death records for local counties or regions e.g CheshireBMD or BathBMD. These are very useful as most contain records up to the present day and contain additional information such as Mothers Maiden Names. Same format as FreeBMD

familyhistoryonline.co.uk

familysearch.org :- The mormons site with the 1881 census and many parish records as part of the IGI.

documentsonline.co.uk :- The National Archives downloadable records site. Includes Wills, WWI medal cards, some death duty registers etc.

findmypast.co.uk

genuki.org.uk :- This has data and information on sources available for individual counties and parishes - has been invaluable for finding parish records online at small sites I would not know about.

But the friendliest and most useful site is of course Rootschat!  :)

acceber
Title: Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
Post by: jillruss on Monday 02 April 07 13:38 BST (UK)
Don't forget the Hugh Wallis site - invaluable for searching the IGI.

Oh, and I've had a bit of help from the One Name Studies site as well.

Jill
Title: Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
Post by: w105uk aka Margi :-) on Monday 02 April 07 13:50 BST (UK)
Don't forget the Hugh Wallis site - invaluable for searching the IGI.


ummmmmmmm sorry to sound thick  :-[ :-[
but which site..........(it may be one I know  :-\ :-\)

could we have a website address?????
Title: Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
Post by: jillruss on Monday 02 April 07 14:30 BST (UK)
Sorry. It's such a long website address, I had to look it up again, as I have it in my favourites.

It's

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm

It's really useful. You can search by parish, find out the IGI coverage for each parish and - best of all - if you have a particular surname in a particular parish, you can search for all the others of that surname in that parish!!

If you know which are the neighbouring parishes - you can search in them too!

Like I said - invaluable. Have a go - I use it all the time.   ;D

Jill

Title: Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
Post by: AndrewJPAS on Monday 02 April 07 16:18 BST (UK)
Many thanks for all your replies, really appreciated. i think i am going to sign up to Ancestry.

Just one query though if anyone can clear it up, i have done a search on ancestry.com and found a member tree that has some very intresting details on, when i try the same search on the UK (ancestry.co.uk) the details do not come up.

In order to contact this member i do need to subscribe, if i subscribed to the UK site would that allow me to obtain this members contact information on the other (.com) site, the member appears to be in New Zealand.

many thanks in advance

Andrew
Title: Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
Post by: AndrewJPAS on Monday 02 April 07 16:22 BST (UK)
Infact looking again just now there is not an option to select New Zealand as the country when searching the member trees section like the .com site

Doing an all countries search dose not bring the information up either
Title: Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
Post by: AndrewJPAS on Monday 02 April 07 17:12 BST (UK)
Its okay i have got to the bottom of the problem :)
Title: Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
Post by: MrsLizzy on Monday 02 April 07 17:32 BST (UK)
I use Ancestry at the moment but someone on here told me that there is a package on findmypast.com that isn't pay per view and includes records that Ancestry doesn't have.  I am very pleased with Ancestry though, think it's very good value.  I've just started using Lost Cousins but no joy so far, although the more people that sign up (it's free) the more likely they are to find lost cousins. 

I like Genes Reunited as well but am not subscribed to that at the moment.
Title: Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
Post by: w105uk aka Margi :-) on Monday 02 April 07 20:16 BST (UK)
Many thanks for all your replies, really appreciated. i think i am going to sign up to Ancestry.

Andrew

I would definitely recommend a free trial first
 ;D ;D
Title: Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
Post by: Pegasuss on Monday 02 April 07 21:03 BST (UK)
Today!

I received 4 emails from FreeBDM (the First Ever!) after I Imformed them of some Errors (mostly were their Transcribers could Not make Out the Ref Numbers), All My suggested Changes have been taken on board & will appear in their Database shortly! :o ;D ;D ;D

Just goes to show, they are Interested In Correcting Any Errors that I pointed out in their records!! (Unlike some site I am not going to mention!) ::) ;)
Title: Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
Post by: kerryb on Monday 02 April 07 21:05 BST (UK)
That's brilliant Pegasuss and I'm glad to hear we are being taken seriously. 

Whenever I send errors to a certain site that I won't mention either, I always get the feeling they are just humouring us!

Kerry
Title: Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
Post by: Pegasuss on Monday 02 April 07 22:16 BST (UK)
That's brilliant Pegasuss and I'm glad to hear we are being taken seriously. 

Whenever I send errors to a certain site that I won't mention either, I always get the feeling they are just humouring us!

Kerry

Ditto.! >:(
Title: Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
Post by: behindthefrogs on Monday 02 April 07 22:31 BST (UK)
Try this lot:

Ancestral Villages   http://www.ancestral-villages.co.uk/
Architects   http://www.churchplansonline.org/
Archives   http://www.a2a.org.uk/
   http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/
Army   http://hometown.aol.co.uk/kevinasplin/home.html
Army 1914-18   http://www.1914-1918.net/
   regiments.org
Army in India   http://members.ozemail.com.au/~clday/regiments.htm
Australian Archives   http://www.naa.gov.au/the_collection/recordsearch.html
Australian NSW Convicts   http://www.genseek.net/scons23c.htm
Australian Convict Ships   http://www.blaxland.com/ozships/
   
Berkshire FHS   http://www.berksfhs.org.uk/
Berkshire   http://www.berkshirehistory.com/index.html
BMD   http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/rectype/vital/freebmd/bmd.aspx?o_iid=24332&o_lid=24332&o_it=21417
Bodlian   http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/
British History Online   http://www.british-history.ac.uk/
Buckinghamshire families   http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=hrohrer
Buckinghamshire Documents   http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/brs_volumes/index.htm
   
California deaths (1940-1997)   http://vitals.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi?surname=major&given=sarah
Canada Census   http://www.automatedgenealogy.com/index.html
Census Abbreviations   http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~families/halsey/ukcensm.html
Church Photographs   http://groups.msn.com/EnglishChurchPhotographs/home.msnw
Church Plans   http://www.churchplansonline.org/
Church Locations   http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/churchdb/search.html
Clergy   http://www.theclergydatabase.org.uk/
East India Company   http://www.eicships.info/ships/index.html
Executions   http://uk.geocities.com/becky62655@btinternet.com/index.html

Gaols   http://www.lawcom.gov.uk/docs/gaols.pdf
Genealogical Guide   http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/EmeryPaper.html
Gun lock makers   http://www.pec.on.ca/armscollecting/files/gun_lock_makers.pdf
   
Heraldry Dictionary   http://historymedren.about.com/od/pimbley/a/pim_o.htm
   http://www.baronage.co.uk/jag-ht/jag014.html
   http://www.heraldica.org/
Home Childern   http://www.homechildren.ca/
   http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/02011003_e.html
Houses etc   http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/
Huguenot   http://www.huguenotsociety.org.uk/
Huguenot Names   http://www.huguenot.netnation.com/ancestor/default.htm
   
India   http://www.search.fibis.org/
Institutions   http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jeffery.knaggs/Instuts.html#2915

Jamaica   www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com
   
Lawyers   http://www.innertemple.org.uk/archive/itad/index.asp
   
London Gazette   http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/
London Dickens 1858   http://charlesdickenspage.com/dickens_london_map.html
London Poverty Maps 1893-1900   http://booth.lse.ac.uk/
Medical Terms   http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/Index.htm
   http://www.paul_smith.doctors.org.uk/archaicmedicalterms.htm

Medieval genealogy   http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/index.html
Midlands books   http://www.midlandshistoricaldata.org/
Mills   http://www.millsarchive.com/
Minority London Communities   http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/history/communities/

Newspapers   http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/newspapers/welcome.asp
   http://www.lightage.demon.co.uk/
   http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dutillieul/ZWindsorEtonExpress/G.html
Nurses - Crimea   http://www.dorsetbay.plus.com/source/nurselist.htm
   
Occupations   http://www.occupationalinfo.org/dot_index.html#A
Old Bailey   http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/
   
Parish Clerks, Church wardens etc   http://steve.pickthall.users.btopenworld.com/pci/index.html
Passengers to canada   http://members.shaw.ca/nanaimo.fhs/
   http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/passenger/001045-130-e.html#c
Passenger Lists   http://www.ancestorsonboard.com/
Poor Law   http://www.institutions.org.uk/poor_law_unions/

Railway Stations - disused   http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/
Registration Districts   http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/districts/   CORRECTED
Rutledge Society   http://www.rootsweb.com/~rutledge
Ships, submarines (various navies)   http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk
   http://www.gwpda.org/naval/n0000000.htm#swt
   http://www.ubootwaffe.net/ops/ships.cgi?boat=123;nr=23
   http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/A/A.html
Ships - Lloyds lists   http://www.reach.net/~sc001198/Lloyds.htm
Surnames   http://www.freesurnamesearch.com/search/uk/england.html
Surname Maps   http://www.spatial-literacy.org/
   
Times   http://trials.galegroup.com/nlw2006/history.html
   http://www.galaxy.bedfordshire.gov.uk/
Tombstone Emblems   http://olivetreegenealogy.com/misc/grave.shtml
   
USA online indexes   http://www.genealogybranches.com/
US passenger list interpretation   http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/Manifests/
Villages Ancestral   http://www.ancestral-villages.co.uk/
   
War Graves   http://www.cwgc.org
   http://www.britishwargraves.org.uk
Wing   http://www.wing-ops.org.uk/
Wills - London   www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/corporation/wills
   
Workhouses   http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/
Title: Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
Post by: Pegasuss on Monday 02 April 07 22:44 BST (UK)
Behindthe frogs.

(what a Mouthfull! ;) ;D

I will copy Your List into a Doc as I think I have enough Bookmarks at the Moment! :o ::) ;)

Hav'nt checked them All, but the Registration Districts one comes up with an 'Error 404. Document not Found' Message! ::)
Title: Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
Post by: behindthefrogs on Monday 02 April 07 22:52 BST (UK)
There are one or two which are out of date like the registration districts.  I have corrected that one now.
I just dumped the first two columns of my spreadsheet.

David
Title: Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
Post by: Pegasuss on Monday 02 April 07 23:01 BST (UK)
David.

No Problem! ;)

I only mentioned it, incase You had'nt recently checked it (& Did'nt Know!). ::)