Ancestry.co.uk - Who do you think you are?

Merrywidow

Thanks for the tip about www.RootsChat.com - I signed up straight away and was browsing low and behold I found a man who was looking for family in a town in Yorkshire. His relative lived at no 41 in 1892 and my father was born at no 46.in 1909. Icing on the cake - they both had the same name!!!

Merrywidow

Great news again. Tuned into www.RootsChat.com again and tried Cambridgeshire - guess what - someone was looking for my mother's family. Was thrilled to bits, she had all the stuff I was looking for and vice versa - saved me a trip to Cambridge. Forever grateful for the info.

nico26

How does Ancestry work with Scottish records. I found I had to use the Scottish one to find anything and it is so expensive to keep up.

hethmar

Ancestry has the scottish census but not the bmd. You have to use scotlands people for that. Take the free14 day trial and see what they have on there.

nico26

hethmar wrote: »

Ancestry has the scottish census but not the bmd. You have to use scotlands people for that. Take the free14 day trial and see what they have on there.

Thanks. been on scotlands people and got a lot of info.Costing a fortune though to get the right people.Luckily come across someone who must be a distant relative in canada looking for the family as well. So looks like I am going to ireland and Canada now lol.
Will give ansestry trial a go Might be luck to find what I need in the 2 weeks.

Merrywidow

Hi everyone - where are you all? Just had to tell you about the latest on www.Rootschat.com A woman was requesting details of the Reed family. Wow - that was my Great Grandfather. Her line goes down through my Great Grandmother and was just the branch of the family I had been researching. Now I don't have to go to Cambridge to trace them. She gave me every child and every date of birth, marriage and death since the mid 1800's. I was so thrilled.

Francophile

nico26 wrote: »

So looks like I am going to ireland and Canada now lol.

You might find this site useful for the Irish search
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/

hethmar

Merrywidow wrote: »

Hi everyone - where are you all? Just had to tell you about the latest on www.Rootschat.com A woman was requesting details of the Reed family. Wow - that was my Great Grandfather. Her line goes down through my Great Grandmother and was just the branch of the family I had been researching. Now I don't have to go to Cambridge to trace them. She gave me every child and every date of birth, marriage and death since the mid 1800's. I was so thrilled.

Really pleased for you BUT - dont take someone elses research as gospel - always double check it. I remember when I first started my research a guy from USA contacted me saying he was same line and gave me bmds back to the 17th century on my paternal line. I was thrilled and though naive, I did question a few things like the 38 year old woman apparently marrying a 16 year old boy ("oh, they did things like that then") Hmm, and the fact that the guy living in the deepest Kent countryside had an occupation which would require him to live by the Thames .......... And so on.

6 months later, I decided to check all his stuff found that from 1840 backwards he had wandered from one line to another and back again and basically it was rubbish, worse than useless. Scrapped the lot and started from scratch.

Dont want to burst your bubble but just be very cautious of people who send you reams of their work.

learmonth

Originally posted by ~Chameleon~
I have used the 14 day free subscription to Ancestry.com 3 times now and never had a problem as long as you remember to cancel before your credit card is charged. Best to do it at a time you can commit to searching all the records you need to, or when you need to re-visit records in light of new information etc

Strictly against the rules - you are only meant to get one free trial. If you are going to do it use a different email address and credit card - that is how they keep track of who you are.

If you have had a paid subscription which expires and you wait long enough, they will probably offer you a 20% discount on renewal.

hethmar

You can get that off through quidco.