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[bearkat]

sprintexec, if you live near enough you may also want to consider whether your local library has free access to Ancestry or FindmyPast or both before jumping into a subscription. It will give you the option to try before you buy if you like. Our local library has access to both on a library edition which is sort of an edited version of the paid for subscriptions but does cover all the 1939 register and also the Censuses and Parish records of both sites.

Thank you for this excellent idea. Where I currently live there is CLS Family Centre and a branch of the County library relatively close by. So the idea of checking out what they have to offer really appeals!

Sadly my local county libraries have recently stopped access to FindMyPast & the newspaper archive.

[jmp]

Yes Bearkat that is true especially if people havent been using the sites, its an easy place to make cutbacks but I am surprised that they havent got Ancestry at the very least in your area as this site seems to be the preferred option for County library services. We are fortunate here in Oxfordshire to have both still.

Sprintex if you find you can get access locally then I would take a USB stick with me and download the images or alternatively take your email address and login and then you can either save the images to the library computer and email them back to yourself or I believe that the Ancestry Library edition allows you to just email direct from the website. Good luck 

[sprintexec]

sprintexec, if you live near enough you may also want to consider whether your local library has free access to Ancestry or FindmyPast or both before jumping into a subscription. It will give you the option to try before you buy if you like. Our local library has access to both on a library edition which is sort of an edited version of the paid for subscriptions but does cover all the 1939 register and also the Censuses and Parish records of both sites.

Thank you for this excellent idea. Where I currently live there is CLS Family Centre and a branch of the County library relatively close by. So the idea of checking out what they have to offer really appeals!

Sadly my local county libraries have recently stopped access to FindMyPast & the newspaper archive.

I've just looked at the Cornwall library webpage - this is what they have to say about Find My Past - "The first time you use Find My Past you will be prompted to register an account. You can access Find My Past at home but accessing it in using a library computer will give you greater access to some of the records and documents".

[jmp]

Yes Sprintex it looks like they have access at the library. In Oxfordshire you dont need to register for a FindMyPast account when you use the library edition, normally you can just go straight in from their computers. In Oxfordshire we cannot access FindMyPast from home without paying for a subscription.  Best thing to do is to book a computer if you need to and then ask the staff how to access Findmypast when you get there

[bearkat]

Yes Bearkat that is true especially if people havent been using the sites, its an easy place to make cutbacks but I am surprised that they havent got Ancestry at the very least in your area as this site seems to be the preferred option for County library services. We are fortunate here in Oxfordshire to have both still.

We do still have access to Ancestry which we are grateful for.

To lose the newspaper archive plus FindMyPast which also has newspapers is a blow.

[jmp]

Yes Bearkat that is true especially if people havent been using the sites, its an easy place to make cutbacks but I am surprised that they havent got Ancestry at the very least in your area as this site seems to be the preferred option for County library services. We are fortunate here in Oxfordshire to have both still.

We do still have access to Ancestry which we are grateful for.

To lose the newspaper archive plus FindMyPast which also has newspapers is a blow.

Yes I agree FindMyPast for me is the preferred option as I am now back into the Parish records and find most of them are on FindMyPast and not Ancestry. I also love the newspapers too. Sorry for your loss