Genes Reunited hidden charges

knightstyle

Just started to research family history and paid to join Genes Reunited. The first thing I wanted to look at was the 1901 census and they wanted an extra £5 to look. What robbers! I have asked for a refund. Anyone found good sites to help with tracing family history etc?

Browntoa

you will only find the 1901 census on paid for web sites like

http://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/

which has loads of other archive stuff

lots of free stuff on

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/

http://freecen.rootsweb.com/

http://www.familysearch.org/ENG/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=AncestorSearchResults.asp

good forum for asking questions

http://www.british-genealogy.com/forums/index.php

genesreunited is very useful for tracing distant relatives as you it checks your tree against other entries with the same details , I live in hope that someone will someday trace down to a dead end on my tree and we will link up !!

knightstyle

Thanks Broantoa for a really useful site, will persue. Do you know of any sites with information on people who were in the first world war and served as auxilliaries? My Grandfather got several campain medals but is not listed in army records. He was an Ambulance Officer with Lysaght Division, but I cannot find any information. Thanks again.

Browntoa

the forum I posted has a 1914-1918 WW1 section , might be worth asking there , some experts over there

Browntoa

Lysaght Division seems to imply workers at the John Lysaght Factory in Bristol ??

In 1920, the UK company was merged into steel giant GKN , Bristol archives may hold some information

http://archives.bristol-city.gov.uk/

knightstyle

Wow, thanks again Browntoa. I will look into all this soon.

Browntoa

I'm sad , down all this already lol !!

this may sometimes give you information as well

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

Anthillmob

i pay £9 something a month to ancestry.com and its fabulous, access to records, census records, birth marriage and death records (note not all), old phone book records (found my dad at our old address lol). and you can build a tree on it as well, i believe you can save your GR tree and have it emailed to yourself as a 'gedcom' file which you can then uload to ancestry.

for £9 a month it really is worth it imho.

Anthillmob

Browntoa wrote: »

you will only find the 1901 census on paid for web sites like

http://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/

which has loads of other archive stuff

lots of free stuff on

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/

http://freecen.rootsweb.com/

http://www.familysearch.org/ENG/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=AncestorSearchResults.asp

good forum for asking questions

http://www.british-genealogy.com/forums/index.php

genesreunited is very useful for tracing distant relatives as you it checks your tree against other entries with the same details , I live in hope that someone will someday trace down to a dead end on my tree and we will link up !!

same here but everyone who has got links to my tree have all drawn a blank at the very same person which makes us believe that john wasnt the correct christian name and the place of birth/residence we all have is wrong also.

so annoying. weve all been stuck on this person in 1736 for a few years now and no one can find a breakthrough.

knightstyle

Thanks for all your comments. Genes have now converted my membership into credits but everytime I try to look at a record I get a blank screen and loose 5 credits! NOT HAPPY

emay

knightstyle wrote: »

Thanks Broantoa for a really useful site, will persue. Do you know of any sites with information on people who were in the first world war and served as auxilliaries? My Grandfather got several campain medals but is not listed in army records. He was an Ambulance Officer with Lysaght Division, but I cannot find any information. Thanks again.

Was he old enough to enlist? If not he may of used a fake name which is why you can't find him