Free Access this weekend on Ancestry 28th-31st August

[msr]

Ancestry 'Public Trees' is rather a misnomer StanleysChesterton, not really for public access in the wider sense, which is why you can't see everything they have. 

A Public tree is one where a subscriber doesn't mind others who have paid their dues having access to their research, photos etc. (or haven't yet realised that there will be some who will help themselves to the information without doing any of the necessary work).
A Private tree owner can invite others to see their work, share, and even edit as seen fit.  This allows family members, no matter how distant, to help each other to build the greater picture.

 

[coombs]

Sometimes trees are in the Public Trees section yet when I click on a name it says Contact this member for more information.

Yes, FamilySearch has census results that I cannot find on Ancestry. And FindMyPast can help as well. Sometimes I even search by birthplace but birthplaces can be grossly mistranscribed such as Woodtriop for Woodbridge or Parting, Essex instead of Terling, Essex

[DavidG02]

   Maybe its a good thing that Public Trees aren't viewable. Maybe Ancestry finally realised the power of RootsChat and have tried to hide them from us so we wont continuously complain about ''how blurry wrong'' they are 

[jess5athome]

  Maybe its a good thing that Public Trees aren't viewable. Maybe Ancestry finally realised the power of RootsChat and have tried to hide them from us so we wont continuously complain about ''how blurry wrong'' they are 

Love it!! 

Frank.

[StanleysChesterton]

Well I found another family, that I wasn't looking for until today, and they're either living under an assumed name, or the transcriber didn't understand their Fen accent.

Instead of a 7-letter name, it's become 5 letters and only the first letter is correct

I'd 'given up' looking for the fella who is being elusive and, instead, decided to try to follow his family to see if he randomly turned up at their house as an OAP. 

The search and waiting for screens to load is tortuous - as is having to do a CCleaner every 2 hours and a reboot to keep the PC chugging along.

[Rosinish]

I'm not sure what others are getting with searches but all I have been able to find is census records (if I'm lucky) & a few old baptisms or marriages.

Nothing yet that I can call a find as I can find more on FREE sites 

NO FREE BMD's (1837) onwards England/Wales have come up............is anyone else managing to access the BMD's 

Annie

[msr]

What are you looking for Annie?  Can I help at all?

[baz54]

Just spent a few hours trawling through the records and found a birth record that I have been searching for ages and a few more interesting titbits of information so well worth the time, I always wondered how good bad or indifferent ancestry.com was and it looks worth the fee if you can afford it that is, did someone say that the site is usually free via library computers? 

[BumbleB]

Certainly in England, most libraries have access to Ancestry - probably .co.uk. so limited to British Isles (predominantly England and Wales).  I'm not definitely sure about the coverage of the Library edition, so I could be wrong and it's worldwide.