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The Genealogist Site - Is it any good?
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Angela | Report | 5 Oct 2005 09:31 |
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Can anyone please tell me whether The Genealogist site has any advantage over other pay-as-you go or subscription sites such as 1837, Ancestry of FamilyRelatives? It seems to be quite expensive. Is their BMD facility any better than other sites? Thanks you. |
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☼ Orangeblossom ☼ - Tracy | Report | 5 Oct 2005 09:33 |
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The BMDs aren't any better than 1837. It does, however, have a lot of census data as well. There are quote a few 1841 indexes (including partial Yorkshire!). The downside of the indexes is that you need S&N CDs to use them properly (which I've complained about lol) |
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Angela | Report | 5 Oct 2005 09:39 |
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As a computer wally, can you please tell me what S&N CDs are, please. What do they do? |
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☼ Orangeblossom ☼ - Tracy | Report | 5 Oct 2005 09:52 |
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S&N Cds are the censuses from genealogy supplies. I think they stock pretty much all the censuses from 1841 onwards. |
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Angela | Report | 5 Oct 2005 10:00 |
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Thanks, Tracy. I think I will save my money. I already have an Ancestry subscription so I will wait until they get the information on there. |
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Stardust | Report | 5 Oct 2005 11:51 |
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Having used their 1851 index for London as I have the cd's I found that several families missing from the index, I knew they were actually on the census as I had found them by chance. |
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Unknown | Report | 5 Oct 2005 12:10 |
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I've had fantastic results from this site using the indexes for Lancashire and Yorkshire. Agree with Grace though that I'm disappointed with the ones for London. They claim both the 1841 and 1851 are complete yet I have located ancestors on the census, using address from certifcates etc, and they don't appear on the index. The images are very clear so it would be strange if they were mistranscribed Lou |
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Angela | Report | 5 Oct 2005 12:24 |
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Both the 1841 and the 1851 censuses including transcripts for part of Yorkshire are on FamilyHistoryOnline. I found all my lot on there, but may just have been lucky. I am only really wanting one person in London in 1851, so will wait until Ancestry come up with the goods. I was interested in the Parish Register entries for Hampshire but they seem to be a bit pricy and the coverage is a bit patchy. |
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David | Report | 5 Oct 2005 13:41 |
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Like Tracy I complained about needing to own S&N CDroms for their index reference to be meaningful (a fact that S&N doesn't mention in its publicity). Didn't get a reply! Great PR. Won't be using the index again or buying any more of their census sets. |
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