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I have just left Ancestry and moved to Find my past, and today I received a message from someone through Ancestry concerning a branch of my tree, unfortunately I cannot reply. Would some kind person who is a member of Ancestry be able to send a reply for me???
Many thanks for any help
Janet x
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PM me, I can do it for you :)
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Janet, excuse my jumping into your thread, but could I please ask if you think that Find my Past is worth giving up my Ancestry for.
I have received my renewal today from Ancestry for which they are asking £107.40 membership.
Find my Past is only £87/9. odd, big difference?
I was debating between the two, so came on here to ask someones advice, and saw your post..
Thanks Dolly.
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hi Dolly,
I have only just moved over to Find my past and still new to the site, the reason I changed from Ancestry was I had been with them for many years and felt I had covered most areas of my research on there, so far the parish records on Find my Past have been very helpful to me but I am still finding my way around the site. I would say that both sites are very good. If you give Find my past a try, you can always switch back to Ancestry after twelve months if you don't like it.
Janet x
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In fact you can join FindMyPast for 6 months so if you didn't like it, its not too long to wait to switch back.
I've advised my friend to join FindMyPast as I am on Ancestry so that between us we'll have access to more records ;)
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I subscribe to both, but tend to use FindMyPast more and will probably give up on Ancestry next time it's due for renewal.
Lizzie
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Thank you all for the replies.
Seems that FindMyPast is catching up on Ancestry now.
I have until Sep 8th on Ancestry, methinks it's time for change!
Thanks Dolly.
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Hmmm...... the LMA records are due on Ancestry by Spring 2010 - I'm staying put ! :)
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Helloo,
Is it different when you live in England?
I live in Australia and can't afford either Ancestry or FindMyPast due to the exchange rate. I am an unpaid subsciber to Ancestry where I have my trees and can do basic restricted searches etc.
I receive email contact re my trees and I am able to reply to them. I would have thought that unless you deleted all your inforamtionm etc you should still be able to reply to contacts about your trees.
regards
Robyn
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Please excuse my ignorance but what are the LMA records? also are there any records om FindMyPast that ancestry doesent have?
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I think its London Metropolitan Archives
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I think its London Metropolitan Archives
Yes, that's right. They hold the church records of most of the London churches. Ancestry are busy digitising them, and they will be available soon. A must, if you have ancestors in or around London.
Ancestry already have many of the Poor Law Union records online, and the Criminal Registers for England and Wales 1791-1892, Thacker's Indian Registers, and The East India Register and Directory. Access to these has to be via "Enhanced" membership or better, I believe (I'm on the World Membership, so I get them all).
I can't answer corb66's second question, I'm afraid. My only experience with FindMyPast was in the early days of my research, when I bought some credits from them, and I've also used them for the 1911 census, and I wasn't at all impressed at the way they handled that.
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Thanks Nick and Parmesan for your replys. I'm only really used to ancestry and up graded my membership recently just so I could read about my ancestors criminal past, great fun :)