Ancestry problems, how is FindMyPast nowadays?

[newbeginings]

So for researching a Scottish family with forrays into the commonwealth and US but next to nothing in England and Wales a world sub for Ancestry along with use of Scotland's People would be preferable ?

[coombs]

In a nutshell, FindMyPast is quite good for Britain at least. Some areas are more covered than others.

I have just bought a new 1 month subscription which gives me access to the 1939 register. Managed to spend hours gathering more info on rellies now.

[StevieSteve]

So for researching a Scottish family with forrays into the commonwealth and US but next to nothing in England and Wales a world sub for Ancestry along with use of Scotland's People would be preferable ?

An Ancestry world sub for occasional forays would be an expensive sledgehammer to crack a nut IMO

Might be better using the money on trips to a library with a subscription

[SilverGrowler]

I use the free library editions in my local library which are very good and cover most of what I want. Do all libraries have some free access or does this depend on where you live? Currentlt I finf findmypast better than ancestry for my purposes.

[ggrocott]

I think most (UK) libraries offer the Ancestry Library edition, unfortunately that is not the case for FindMyPast.  However, when they do the FindMyPast version is better as you can access your own tree and add to it.  Have to say that my recent trip made me feel the 50 mile drive to do it was worth the effort, but as a regular thing would not be cost effective!

[clairec666]

I use the free library editions in my local library which are very good and cover most of what I want. Do all libraries have some free access or does this depend on where you live? Currentlt I finf findmypast better than ancestry for my purposes.

Depends where you live. East Sussex libraries have subscriptions to both, so I'm lucky. Usually your local library's website has a list of which sites it subscribes to.

[ThrelfallYorky]

I've stuck with Ancestry for some time, mainly because it has most of the areas I need - but I really do wish they had a button to "exclude records from...." I've almost nothing U.S.A., and any fairly wide search seems to result in umpteen USA records trolling down the page.
I've had few issues with Ancestry - others have mentioned London records, that's true, but I find it quite well set out on the whole.

[clairec666]

I've stuck with Ancestry for some time, mainly because it has most of the areas I need - but I really do wish they had a button to "exclude records from...." I've almost nothing U.S.A., and any fairly wide search seems to result in umpteen USA records trolling down the page.
I've had few issues with Ancestry - others have mentioned London records, that's true, but I find it quite well set out on the whole.

ThrelfallYorky - you can restrict your search to UK records only, would that help?

When you edit your search, there's a box called "Collection Focus" and you can select "UK and Ireland".

[ThrelfallYorky]

Yes, I always do do that, but quite often get things - births in Philadelphia USA, etc, that I'm clearly not after. It does seem to have a problems with wandering geography!