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Offline AndrewJPAS

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What Sites Do You Use ?
« 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

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Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
« Reply #1 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.

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Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
« Reply #2 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
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Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
« Reply #3 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!) ::)
Hertzberger, Highton, Walker, Eaton, Webster, Brown, Wright, Speed, Dodd, Holland, Melling, Murphy, Edwards, Bennett, Collins, Critchley, Duffy, Owens, Morgan & Humphreys

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« Reply #4 on: Sunday 01 April 07 23:31 BST (UK) »
all those and

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


and of course

ROOTS
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« Reply #5 on: Sunday 01 April 07 23:37 BST (UK) »
all those and

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


and of course

ROOTS[/quote

Thats the IGI site I am Registered on!

Did I forget to Add Roots as Well! :-[ ::) ;)]
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Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
« Reply #6 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/
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« Reply #7 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
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Re: What Sites Do You Use ?
« Reply #8 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.

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Dorset: Ackerman,Bungey,Bunter Chant,Hyle
Islington:Bedford, Eaton,Wilkins
Beds,Fulham: Brazier
Shoreditch: Burton,Coverdale
Essex ,Clerkenwell:Craswell,Cresswell
St.Lukes Middx:Doughty, Dunkley
Andover/IOW/Fulham:Gasser
Fulham: Neal
Bucks:Putnam,Wingrove
Bullwell.Notts:Wilkinson
Clerkenwell/Islington:Wyllie
Herts/ Tottenham/Walthamstow:Young