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Census Lookups General Lookups => Census Lookup and Resource Requests => Census and Resource Discussion => Completed Census Requests => Topic started by: AndrewJPAS on Sunday 01 April 07 23:09 BST (UK)
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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
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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
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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
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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!) ::)
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all those and
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/default.asp
and of course
ROOTS
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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! :-[ ::) ;)]
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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/
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?????
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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
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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
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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
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Its okay i have got to the bottom of the problem :)
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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.
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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
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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!) ::) ;)
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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
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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.! >:(
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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/
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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! ::)
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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
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David.
No Problem! ;)
I only mentioned it, incase You had'nt recently checked it (& Did'nt Know!). ::)