Hi All
I was out at PC world and seen some software family tree maker and it was giving three months free to Ancestry so I bought it I wanted soft ware anyhow
and rush home to start searching and my Internet was down
just came back on this morning
Cheers Jan
Ancestry co uk
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Bargain!
I bought Family Tree Maker off the Ancestry site AFTER I'd first subscribed to Ancestry, so thought I'd missed out on the free 3 months.
I contacted them about it and got an extra 3 months tagged on.
Well! You don't ask, you don't get
I bought Family Tree Maker off the Ancestry site AFTER I'd first subscribed to Ancestry, so thought I'd missed out on the free 3 months.
I contacted them about it and got an extra 3 months tagged on.
Well! You don't ask, you don't get
[b]Mary[/b]
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McDonald or MacDonald (some couldn't make up their mind!), Bonner, Crichton, McKillop, Campbell, Cameron, Gitrig (+other spellings), Clark, Sloan, Stewart, McCutcheon, Ireland (the surname)
A cat leaves pawprints on your heart
McDonald or MacDonald (some couldn't make up their mind!), Bonner, Crichton, McKillop, Campbell, Cameron, Gitrig (+other spellings), Clark, Sloan, Stewart, McCutcheon, Ireland (the surname)
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HI all
My nearest decent sized library has free access to Ancestry - I don't know if this is just because they have other family history related materials or whether if is a regional thing, but if anyone is looking for access to Ancestry, I'd suggest asking at your local library first.
(one happy bunny here, using Ancestry free at the library I've just found some "long losts" in the USA....!!)
Best wishes
Lesley
My nearest decent sized library has free access to Ancestry - I don't know if this is just because they have other family history related materials or whether if is a regional thing, but if anyone is looking for access to Ancestry, I'd suggest asking at your local library first.
(one happy bunny here, using Ancestry free at the library I've just found some "long losts" in the USA....!!)
Best wishes
Lesley
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Hi All
My Local library has Ancestry Free and it's not very large library .
the whole of Essex do have Ancestry in there libraries
I have use it and its pretty cool
Cheers Jan
My Local library has Ancestry Free and it's not very large library .
the whole of Essex do have Ancestry in there libraries
I have use it and its pretty cool
Cheers Jan
Paisley:Cowan,McFarlane,Whyte
Neilston:Thorpe,Young,Edgar,McGraw,McDonald
Strath:Grant,Chisholm,McLean
Coatbrigde:Merry,Dunn,Allan,Baird
Ayrshire:McIlwairth,McCulloch
Kirkcudbright:Blacklock Halliday http://www.jcallan.co.uk/
Neilston:Thorpe,Young,Edgar,McGraw,McDonald
Strath:Grant,Chisholm,McLean
Coatbrigde:Merry,Dunn,Allan,Baird
Ayrshire:McIlwairth,McCulloch
Kirkcudbright:Blacklock Halliday http://www.jcallan.co.uk/
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I use Ancestry quite a bit and shall continue to do so, but I have recently found a new (to me) hazard with Ancestry records, that I ought to share.
It involved the transcription of "ditto". In a Welsh census record, an address inhabited by family Rees was followed by one inhabited by family Evans, so that there was one "ditto" under the surname Rees and there were five dittos under Evans. The transcriber clearly misunderstood the concept of the "ditto", so translated all six of them as "Rees". If I hadn't already known enough about the family to recognise that it was the one for which I was looking, despite the error, that might have thrown me. In the event, I had searched on the one Evans family member (out of six) who was correctly indexed as such. If I had been searching on his wife, or their daughter (perfectly plausible, since they are my ancestors, too), I should not have found them in Ancestry, because they were both listed as Rees. (I have reported all the errors to Ancestry for correction.)
This could easily happen for Scottish census transcriptions in Ancestry, too, and might be harder to detect, since the actual census forms for Scotland are not visible via Ancestry, of course. Precisely the same kind of mistake is not likely to be made by SP, but SP does also make the odd error and I have needed Ancestry in the past, when a census record has been invisible in SP. May be just one to bear in mind.
It involved the transcription of "ditto". In a Welsh census record, an address inhabited by family Rees was followed by one inhabited by family Evans, so that there was one "ditto" under the surname Rees and there were five dittos under Evans. The transcriber clearly misunderstood the concept of the "ditto", so translated all six of them as "Rees". If I hadn't already known enough about the family to recognise that it was the one for which I was looking, despite the error, that might have thrown me. In the event, I had searched on the one Evans family member (out of six) who was correctly indexed as such. If I had been searching on his wife, or their daughter (perfectly plausible, since they are my ancestors, too), I should not have found them in Ancestry, because they were both listed as Rees. (I have reported all the errors to Ancestry for correction.)
This could easily happen for Scottish census transcriptions in Ancestry, too, and might be harder to detect, since the actual census forms for Scotland are not visible via Ancestry, of course. Precisely the same kind of mistake is not likely to be made by SP, but SP does also make the odd error and I have needed Ancestry in the past, when a census record has been invisible in SP. May be just one to bear in mind.
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Its not listed on the web site at my local library which is also in Essex, only the International Genealogical Index - Family History, but i will check with them. It is at the larger library but that involves a bus ride, so lazy !.scottishMisty wrote:Hi All
My Local library has Ancestry Free and it's not very large library .
the whole of Essex do have Ancestry in there libraries
I have use it and its pretty cool
Cheers Jan
Scotland - Donaldson / Moggach / Shaw / Geddes / Sim / Gray / Mackie / Richards / Joel / Coull / Mckimmie / Panton / McGregor
Ireland and Scotland - Casey / McDade / Phillips / McCandle / Dinely / Comaskey + various spellings
Ireland and Scotland - Casey / McDade / Phillips / McCandle / Dinely / Comaskey + various spellings
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