emanday wrote:Alan and Montrose Budie,
While agreeing that some info on SP might be a little more expensive than on some other sites; Being able to have almost immediate access to BMD information /images on SP has taken my (Scottish) family ancestry forward by leaps and bounds.
Researching my English son-in-iaw's family has been a far more expensive enterprise, as only the index entries are viewable. To confirm actual connections I've had to order certificates - a lot more costly!
I reckon Scotlands People is probably the most cost effective site, providing your ancestors are Scottish. Yet another example of Scotland's forward thinking attitude to its/our history.
I wasn't aware that I was suggesting or implying that ScotlandsPeople is too expensive !
On the contrary my clearly expressed opinion on many previous occasions is that it is highly cost effective given that it provides access not just to the indexes but also to digitised images; plus the modern B&D indexes, with the modern M indexes to come 'soon', and lots more both at the moment and in the future! (Read the User Group minutes.)
Earlier this week, once again, it only took one and a half hours to get someone back to their greatgreatgreatgreatgrandparents, and that would only have been three quarters of an hour but for problems making the link from the 2GGP generation to the 3GGP generation (in fact, even less but for the fact that my printer was playing silly b*****s in terms of the times to set up the printing of an image) ; the man having been married at least two times, and the woman twice, with a son's death record showing his mother's maiden name as her first married name ......
Cost?, around 80 credits, - £18,- and would have been a lot less but for the 2G-3G problem which required a load of collateral searching.
Cost in England?, - a minimum of £100 for certificates (minimum because you can't tell if the document is the correct one until you've bought it); this over a period of at least several weeks if not months.
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