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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: trish58 on Friday 11 September 20 03:19 BST (UK)
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Quick question.
Does anyone use Find my Past these days ? If so is it worth joining ?
I used to subscribe before the massive change a few years ago but opted out and haven't used it since.
Many thanks
Trish.
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Various threads about this on Rootschat if you search.
It always comes down to what Original records you want.
I use FindMyPast a great deal
Is there a monthly Deal you could sign up for to see what you think now?
Or do you qualify for the free trial?
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It depends on what you want from it.
I use it a great deal as it covers the counties I need, which ancestry doesn't.
It also has all the Diocese of Lichfield wills, which other sites don't.
I also like the fact it's an English based site as opposed a US based one, and I like the way it works much better than Ancestry.
It's getting used to the new format I think.
You need to check which is best for you - findmypast or Ancestry.
I also use familysearch.org a lot. Especially as a first line of enquiry.
They have digitised microfilms of the registers of many places which are free to view , and can be viewed at home if you're lucky. Sometimes they can only be viewed at an LDS library, which I should think are the moment are not open.
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Thank you, I may just have a look.
:)
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I use both Ancestry and FindMyPast. The former is mainly for maintaining my tree, but when I do a search I tend to do it on FindMyPast. They seem to take much better care over transcribing records.
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I'd suggest you take up the free trial, spend a couple of weeks firkling round it and seeing what is available for the areas you research that perhaps you can't access elsewhere.
After that, you should have a better idea of whether or not its worth the sub for your purposes.
I do have a sub to Find My Past and also one to Ancestry - depending on which branch of my tree I am looking at there are databases that are only available on one or the other.
I do find the FindMyPast access to old newspapers is very useful for me, but mainly because the newspapers for the areas I look at regularly are included - though the searching facility is hit and miss depending on the OCR being able to read the print.
Boo
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NB the free trial involves you giving them your card details, be aware that if you don't cancel within the free trial period they will charge you, so be sure you cancel within the timeframe if you decide against taking out a sub.
Boo
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Boo.......from South Aussie, "firkling"???
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oh sorry, I've been asked that before :-)
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=800305.msg6578302#msg6578302
that's my usual reply, hope it makes sense :-)
Boo
(originated in County Durham, England but uses a lexicon that's possibly unique, but often descriptive)
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Did the word "firkle" originate from mining? I read or heard something recently about old work-related words which were used outside work. I think firkle was one of them. Suggestion may have been Cornish miners who moved north.
The word in Susie Dent's Dictionary Corner in the current edition of "Radio Times" is "tartle". Susie Dent's new book will be published in October.
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Did the word "firkle" originate from mining? I read or heard something recently about old work-related words which were used outside work. I think firkle was one of them. Suggestion may have been Cornish miners who moved north.
The word in Susie Dent's Dictionary Corner in the current edition of "Radio Times" is "tartle". Susie Dent's new book will be published in October.
With apologies to trish58 as I am responsible for taking your thread off topic.
No idea Maiden Stone, but I have been using the term since I was little. Regional influences I am aware of that could have been passed down to me from the previous two or three generations are Co.Durham , Northumberland, Shetland, Borders of Scotland and Ireland.
Nothing from the south of England that I am (yet) aware of, though plenty of mines around in Durham and Northumberland so it could have travelled up if any Cornish miners came that far.
Or there again it could have been a word I mis-heard when I was small and kind of adopted it :-)
Boo
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I confused firkle with fossick. I heard about fossicking on the radio series "Tongue and Talk: the Dialect Poets: part 4 the Black Country", repeated tonight. Dictionary definition is rummage or search about. All appropriate words for family history. Firkle and fossick on Find My Past to find family history. :)
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Thanks Boo,
yep do it all the time!
Only yesterday re-examined info on father-in-law's adoption that i have.
Can't get a birth cert yet because it's not been 100 years! Nearly!
Cheers,
Chris