Genealogy
Looking for recommendations for a user friendly genealogy service?
Back in the day I used to do my own research at the offices in London...but now trying to do some family history research in the 1900-1930 period.
Realise I will have to pay some form of subscription.
Any suggestions?
Thanks Jeff
Back in the day I used to do my own research at the offices in London...but now trying to do some family history research in the 1900-1930 period.
Realise I will have to pay some form of subscription.
Any suggestions?
Thanks Jeff
I have used Ancestry.co.uk with great success - but as you say it does cost. I got so far and realised that I had got to the point where I needed to look at parish records and as they are all scattered throughout many counties it became even more expensive and very time consuming so was satisfied with the 17th century.
Try https://www.familysearch.org/en/ they are allied to the church of the Latter Day saints, but there is no religious content, requiremant, neither is there any hard sell at all, they just believe that the info should be free and available. It a passable free starting point.
Plenty of free sources, does your local council have a records office? These will have access to many national records usually. Have a look at this site too...…. www.freebmd.org.uk/search
Good luck.
Good luck.
I use Ancestry, which is great for building your tree, storing links to relevant documents etc, and automatically searches for info on the family members you have entered, providing "hints" which save the time of looking stuff up, and also can link you to people with shared ancestors.
But beware, you can download all your data, but you can't merge data, so if you also maintain information in another program (I use Family Historian) you can only merge by downloading from Ancestry and merging in your own software - anything you have locally that you want in Ancestry has to go up manually.
But beware, you can download all your data, but you can't merge data, so if you also maintain information in another program (I use Family Historian) you can only merge by downloading from Ancestry and merging in your own software - anything you have locally that you want in Ancestry has to go up manually.
