Those of us who have current subscriptions cannot get a refund if we decide to cancel so what we are looking at is whether to continue with Ancestry when our sub expires or go with another site (eg) Find My Past
What Newsfer and myself and others are saying, is that there is an increasing number of users of this board who will post numerous lookup requests rather than use the Ancestry access at their library - or pay for it themselves. In other words - we pay but they gain!!
If findmypast had the complete censuses on, then I think I'd be sorely tempted to move. Though I have made quite a few really useful contacts through Ancestry, so I'm sort of loathe to ditch it completely. One thing I find really annoying is that findmypast have the (well, a fairly limited set of) records of those emigrating from the UK, but ancestry have the immigrants into the USA - so if I wanted to follow a person across the Atlantic, I'd need the two sites!
Does anyone know if there's a comparison anywhere as to what the various genealogy sites like ancestry, findmypast and other smaller names offer? It would be really useful to see it all in one place in a clear table.
The issue of asking for lookups here is an interesting one, as I'm on both sides of the fence: if something catches my eye that I can help with, I will. But I don't have ancestry's full world subscription, so I've asked here for help with US censuses, bmd and immigration for some, and use pay per view for others (usually the closer relatives). It's unfortunate that Ancestry's US census indexes really don't give enough information to know you've got the right one as ppv starts to become expensive, when it's a common name - that's when it's nice to know a rootschatter might be able to help.
