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I am at a point where I really need to get into parish records to pursue a few of the branches of my family tree. FindMyRoots says that they have the most complete collection of parish records, and Ancestry says that they have them as well.

I'd like to know people's experience with both places. I can only afford one, and I was leaning towards Ancestry as I can pay by the month. With FindMyRoots, I'd have to pay for at least 6 months up front which is quite expensive for me. I'm on a limited budget as I'm retired. I would like to get the most for my money in terms of being able to find information efficiently.

Please let me know of your experiences with both places so I can make a good decision

By the way, I live in the U.S. so I can't go to these places to look up the information in person. I'm interested mostly in Salford, Manchester, Liverpool, and I know my search will take me to Scotland at some point.

Thank you!
Carole

Now that I've gotten so many birth, marriage, death certificates, I'm having a hard time organizing them. Can anyone give me some suggestions on the best way to do this? I'd also be interested in what you keep your's in? Do you have a folder, multiple folders? Is there any place in the UK that makes some kind of organizer for these things?  I've looked here in the US, but the size of them prohibits me from using anything I've seen over here.

Thanks,
Carole

I have traced my family back to this parish. Unfortunately, it was torn down and no longer exists. There is a St. Peter's in Liverpool now, and I contacted them, but they said they have nothing to do with the original one. I am trying to find out where the records from the original one would be. I am planning to come over to England next year (2013), and I'd like to get permission to look through them to see if I can go back further in my family tree. I am already back to the early 1800's, so parish records would be the only records available for me to get back into the late 1700's. If anyone is in Liverpool, could you find out if they have these records on microfilm at one of the libraries? Or if someone knows where the records were sent for archiving, please let me know so that perhaps I could write to get permission to view them next year.

Thanks,
Carole

I just found out that I can claim British citizenship by descent as my mother was born in England. However, when I looked at her papers when she became a US citizen in the 1960's, it lists her nationality as "Canada".  During WW2, she married my father who was a Canadian and when the war was over they moved to Canada for a short while before moving to the US. I want to find out if, in fact, my mother did become a Canadian citizen as she never mentioned it, and considered herself English until the day she died. I'm not sure if there was some kind of law that gave spouses of Canadian servicemen who married overseas automatic citizenship or if what it on her US citizenship papers was wrong. This is very important to me as I would love to retire in the UK and want to obtain British citizenship by descent.

Thanks for any help anyone can give on this!

Carole

I just received the birth certificate of my great great grandmother. She was born on the 9 July, 1843. The address looks like 6 Bete Street in the subdistrict of Greengate, Salford. I've tried googling it, but nothing comes up. I'm sure that's because it's no longer there, as the street where my Mom was born and grew up is no longer there either.

Does anyone have a very old map of Salford who could tell me if (a) I'm reading the spelling correctly, as the certificate is handwritten and (b) where Bete Street was when it was in existence?

Thank you!
Carole May