Ancestry or Find My Past

[StevieSteve]

For another I-know-you-said-it-wasn't-a-complete-list-but... post

FindMyPast have a lot of Wales, if that's an area of interest

Oxford on Ancestry is supposedly imminent but I don't know how imminent imminent is

[StevieSteve]

As for usage, Ancestry can throw up a lot more records in their searches 1/ because they have more 2/ it's more difficult to restrict searches to exact

Ancestry searches often pick up wilder mis-transcriptions, but then again, they create more of them

I find that FindMyPast allocates the right county to a town, Ancestry can be infuriating

You can restrict searches on both by +- 1,2,5,10 years on both but FindMyPast gives an option for 20 & 40 years. And you can sort the results on FindMyPast too.

FindMyPast's images are often clearer


All that said, I have Ancestry as first choice purely because half my lot come from Middlesex

[coombs]

I see you have Luckin in your surname interests, mine are from Foulness.

Mine too - Peggy Luckin married Miles Alborough. They are my 5xgreat-grandparents.

See how RootsChat itself can be considered an ancestral database now. Peggy's brother John Lucking was my 5xgreat grandfather. James Taylor my 2xgreat grandfather, his mum was Mary Lucking, her dad was William Lucking whose father was John Lucking born 1755.

[smudwhisk]

Oxford on Ancestry is supposedly imminent but I don't know how imminent imminent is

From what I was told earlier this year, it may not be that imminent, but that's anybody's guess.

Hopefully I won't be told off this time for divulging "privileged information", not that I'm party to anything to do with it anyway.

And it would seem the Leicestershire parish registers are going online at FindMyPast - see https://twitter.com/recordoffice/status/666235784496873472. (you don't need a twitter account to read the post)

[StevieSteve]

Damn - Leicestershire is a family-free zone for me, while Oxford seems like every single Thomas Hardy novel rolled into one!

[clairec666]

And it would seem the Leicestershire parish registers are going online at FindMyPast - see https://twitter.com/recordoffice/status/666235784496873472. (you don't need a twitter account to read the post)

Oooh, this sounds interesting! Some of my lot venture into Leicestershire. Though I imagine we won't see any records for quite a while, seeing as they've only just announced it.

I'd be interested to know if Findmypast are adding any more parishes to their Staffordshire collection too.

[elf]

Thank you all for your help
Sue

[CarolA3]

I asked Ancestry when the Oxfordshire records were likely to appear, bearing in mind that they acquired all the scans from Oxfordshire FHS many months ago.  As at 22 November, they couldn't/wouldn't discuss release dates but advised me to follow their blog or social media.  If I do that, apparently I'll be 'the first to know'.  Hope I live that long.
(Even then, there will be nothing for the ex-Berkshire parishes which became part of Oxfordshire in 1974, so a good many researchers will be disappointed.)

Carol