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- 03 Jul 2020, 21:27
- Forum: Genealogy chat
- Topic: Ancestry or FMP?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7733
Re: Ancestry or FMP?
I agree with Guy, here I am comparing websites and search capacities yet still remember microfiche, still have a reader in the loft and winding microfilm onto readers and trying to ascertain images like that, so we have come along way to be fair. Talking of census, it’s surprising the difference in ...
- 02 Jul 2020, 20:43
- Forum: Genealogy chat
- Topic: Ancestry or FMP?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7733
Re: Ancestry or FMP?
Thanks Adrian a very detailed breakdown of the search criteria and options and how to use the specific searches of each site, appreciate your replies, just noticed we are almost neighbours as well......
- 02 Jul 2020, 12:11
- Forum: Genealogy chat
- Topic: Ancestry or FMP?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7733
Re: Ancestry or FMP?
Appreciate the replies and perhaps it was the wording of my question that wasn't clear. I wasn't specifically asking for a direct comparison between the two, it was more about the differences in the way you navigate to the searches and filters. Because I am more used to Ancestry I find it easier to ...
- 29 Jun 2020, 16:19
- Forum: Genealogy chat
- Topic: Ancestry or FMP?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7733
Ancestry or FMP?
Ancestry or FMP, or both even? I have been a user of Ancestry for as long as I have been researching my tree, I only occasionally dip in and out of a FMP subscription and I am wondering if I am missing out and not making the most of FMP? Typically I took a subscription out with them for the 1939 reg...
- 28 Jun 2020, 21:28
- Forum: Genealogy chat
- Topic: Parish Register Oddities
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3129
Re: Parish Register Oddities
You can normally find some pretty humeorus ones
- 28 Jun 2020, 05:35
- Forum: Genealogy chat
- Topic: The Importance of Setting Genealogy Goals
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1754
The Importance of Setting Genealogy Goals
My half yearly report, so how did I do???
https://chiddicksfamilytree.com/2020/06 ... -did-i-do/
https://chiddicksfamilytree.com/2020/06 ... -did-i-do/
Re: DNA
I have put off completing a DNA test as do not fully understand how it could be used other than to perhaps highlight that my ancestors came from a very large geographic area. Is there one kit that does something different others do not? I keep seeing the ad on ancestry, is this the same as others f...
DNA
Maybe DNA is worthy of its own category?? For those that are anti DNA or can't see any value in what it can bring, let me tell you about my success over the weekend. Within the first year or two of my research I quickly established that my great grandmother had an unknown Father, nothing unusual, it...
- 18 Jun 2020, 14:17
- Forum: Genealogy chat
- Topic: Genealogy hints, tips, and cheats
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4174
Re: Genealogy hints, tips, and cheats
That is truly great tip Mick, how easy it would be to completely dismiss the correct person