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Census Lookups General Lookups => Census and Resource Discussion => Topic started by: post office Kate on Sunday 22 August 10 19:16 BST (UK)
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I used to subscribe to Genes Reunited but my membership lapsed ages ago because I found ancestry.com much easier to use. As it doesn't look like ancestry will have access to the 1911 census, and I find the 1911online site a bit hit and miss can anyone tell me whether it would be worth re-subscribing to genes so that I can get unlimited access to the 1911 census? Many thanks, Kate.
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It is still the same 1911 on-line site :)
brightsolid today announced it is to acquire Friends Reunited Group from ITV plc for £25 million. The completion of the deal is subject to clearance by the competition authorities.
The acquisition of Friends Reunited Group would create Britain's leading genealogy business by bringing together Genes Reunited and findmypast.com (which operate the official 1901 and 1911 Census websites respectively in association with The National Archives) and ScotlandsPeople in partnership with General Register Office for Scotland, the National Archives of Scotland and the Court of the Lord Lyon.
http://www.GenesReunited.co.uk/GenesReunited.asp?wci=grstatic&type=PressReleases_brightsolid
Stan
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Now that is interesting Stan - thank you very much. As someone who has a subscription to FindmyPast as well as Ancestry and who dithers each year if both are financially justified, a tree on Genes Reunited, and always seems to be buying credits to search Scotland's People, I await with bated breath to see if that makes my life cheaper - or more expensive!
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Unless your family tree is huge, or you are researching more than one tree, then a 6 month sub to FindMyPast should be all you need for the 1911 census. After all, going back to 1911 will mean grandparents or g. grandparents to most of us, and you've only got 8 of the latter. I took out a 12 month sub to FindMyPast, and (to be honest) I think it would have been cheaper for me to use PPV, because I've only used it about 30 times (although I did pay for about 10 records by PPV before yearly subs were available).
In my humble opinion, the searches on Ancestry are miles better than FindMyPast - I proved this at the weekend when I typed my g.g. grandfather's details into the search engine of both. The Ancestry search came back with all the census records of those matching my details, along with full BMD lookups, marriage records and banns (he lived in London), and links to other people's trees. On FindMyPast, all I got was a list of records that I could manually wade through. No contest, as far as I'm concerned.
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Nick - Are you on commission for recommending Ancestry, you do seem to plug it a lot? I have both FindMyPast and Ancestry and find that FindMyPast is better for some records and Ancestry for others.
As some other Rootschatter will no doubt comment, there have been many discussions on which is the best site.
Lizzie
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Nick - Are you on commission for recommending Ancestry, you do seem to plug it a lot?
No, I'm not. I have subscriptions to FindMyPast, Ancestry and The Genealogist, and I use all 3 regularly. Do you ?
I am expressing my own opinion, which I'm entitled to do, and my opinion is based on experience.
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I agree with Nick, Ancestry search is way ahead of FindMyPast.
As a thought, I assume most records offices have access to the 1911 census by now, so pay them a visit to check out and you may get it for free
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I have subscriptions to FindMyPast, Ancestry and The Genealogist, and I use all 3 regularly. Do you ?
I'm only have subs to FindMyPast and Ancestry but I do use them regularly, every day in fact but as I said I find FindMyPast better for some things and Ancestry for others - and that's my opinion. ;D
Lizzie
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as I said I find FindMyPast better for some things and Ancestry for others - and that's my opinion. ;D
It's my opinion too ;D
And, as I've said before, these discussions just go round and round and round in circles.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,468475.msg3302271.html#msg3302271
Jennifer
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Yes, they do go around in circles, but I didn't say that Ancestry was miles better, I said that Ancestry's searches were miles better. Anyone who says otherwise has obviously not tried to find a death record on FindMyPast, which has no searchable death index.
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Are the images of the censuses on genes the same as the ones on ancestry? Money's quite tight and I don't want to waste any of it on a site I won't get much benefit from. I would be looking at many more than 8 records because I trace all my ancestors. ;)
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The images are not the same, allegedly. However, Ancestry claim that their 'Enhanced Image Viewer' makes the images better. To be honest, I've not had any trouble reading census sheets on that many pages from any of the sites.
If you really only want to view 8 records, I can't see you getting value for money from any of the sites, including 1911.
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If you really only want to view 8 records, I can't see you getting value for money from any of the sites, including 1911.
Are the images of the censuses on genes the same as the ones on ancestry? Money's quite tight and I don't want to waste any of it on a site I won't get much benefit from. I would be looking at many more than 8 records because I trace all my ancestors. ;)
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Ooops, sorry, my eyes haven't waken up yet :-[
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Just noticed this thread and thought I would add my twopennorth:
All "records" held by GenesReunited are actaully held by other companies and you are redirected to these site via genes own website (including 1911 census both GR & 1911/FindMyPast are owned by Brightsolid),
but and here is a big BUT - when viewing any census records via Genes (with the exception of 1911 which is page per household) if your family is on more than one page you cannot scroll the pages, you can only view the first page that family appears on and will then either have to re-search or pay (PPV) to see next page. It is all a bit of a con via GR.