What Sites Do You Use ?

[Tephra]

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         

[newbie]

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

[kerryb]

Newbie beat me to it!

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

[Lydart]

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.

[Thisty]

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

[kerryb]

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

[acceber]

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

[jillruss]

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

[w105uk aka Margi :-)]

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??