British Origins is definitely better. I have several people that I found there that I can't find anywhere else. But I had problems with their technology, couldn't download after a while. I was thinking of trying it again for a short stint, to hunt for some new people that I can't find; maybe I'll get lucky and it will work again.
I found one all by myself the other day! I had a will, with a street name, but the person was nowhere to be found on the census two years previous to his death. So I went through the listings at ancestry for that street, and I found him myself! It was very faint, and if I didn't already know his name etc., I'm not sure I would have found him. I checked to see if any of the other names on that street were indexed at ancestry; they weren't, even though a few of them were quite legible. I think they just "dumped" the whole page as being useless. Ancestry seem to use a very crude process, the "bargain basement" approach.
