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This is very exciting news – especially the Scottish censuses. I am sick of wasting money on credits on Scotland’s People. All inclusive subscriptions are the way to go. The addition of more parish registers, plus the digitised newspaper images will make the FMP subscription a must have.

I like the idea of the Scottish censuses being available on FMP – will this just be an index, or the images as well. I believe FMP and Scotlands People are owned by the same company – why not either make Scotlands People a subscription site, or just merge both sites, and have full images for census, birth, death, marriage and wills available – FMP would quickly become very, very popular with all us who have Scottish ancestors.

I agree with Caroline & Jan, all inclusive subscriptions are so important.
How many times when researching someone do you look at different records before you get the correct one, or find that further research leads you to look at images you had discarded/ignored before? When using the credit method I hardly find or look at anything, and now I don’t bother wasting my time or money on any site without a subscription option. Merging FMP and Scotland’s People would prove very popular, and current users of FMP I am sure would not mind updating their subscription to include the Scottish records.
It is wonderful to be able to see the actual records too, this makes a big difference, as transcriptions can often be wrong, and not include all the data on the record.
Keep up the good work ! Looking forward to the 2011 new records coming online.

This does sound good but, alas, even a Foundation subscription is too expensive for me. I wish Find My Past would do what Ancestry do and offer a monthly subscription. I dip in and out of my family research and have months where I do a lot but then go for several months without touching it. A FMP subscription is just too expensive for people who research in flurries as I do. Please reconsider your subsciption terms and introduce a monthly option.

I can’t afford to let my sub go – it breaks down the barrier of distance for we in Australia and let’s me access the records anywhere, anytime. I certainly get my $$$ worth.
I look forward to the appearance of the Scottish censuses.

I love FMP, I have found so much information – I dip in and out and find that I too get my monies worth. Look forward to working hard again this year with FMP, wish I could find more on Colonial Civil Servants and Indian Army records, some of my family fall between the two.

Lots of exciting news – thanks for passing it on. I too am looking forward to the Scottish census becoming available here (and echo the comments of those who have queried whether the census images will be included). I await the appearance of all those Welsh parish records with even greater anticipation (and with the hope that you will improve your parish record search experience to take account of all the extra data we will have to sift through). The digitized newspapers also promise to be a fantastic resource, as I have already found so many snippets of useful information from other sites where old newspapers are available. Militia records will be of great interest, and I hope that the English parish record additions will include some from Shropshire and Staffordshire where most of my ancestors lived. The ability to save records viewed will also be very useful.

Bring it on!!

Hi everyone – thanks for all your comments, we’re always keen to hear your views. With regard to the Scottish census images, we’re in the process of finalising the details at the moment. We’ll let you know the specifics as soon as we can – stay tuned!

The Scottish census images would be great to have on your site. I agree with the comment about introducing a monthly subscription, providing this is a one-off payment and not an indefinite subscription ehivh the subscriber has to cancel at the end of the first month.

I fully agree with the above comments, I wish FMP would offer a monthly subscription like Ancestry does, I can’t afford £80+ in one go, not many people can, surely it would attract so many more to FMP who couldn’t afford it otherwise.

It would also help if on the 14 day trial you got FULL access, so you can really see what you’re getting for your money, I have no idea what some of these records contain and there are no examples. This would really help if we had some idea especially with records that are not anywhere else!

I took out a full subscription with FMP just after Christmas and for the most part I have found it to be an excellent site – easy to use and the quality of the various scans is excellent. However, I was most disappointed to discover that FMP – unlike Ancestry – did not include Scotland. It’s good to see that the 1841 – 1901 Scotland census data will be available this year – but do we know when? and what about the 1911 census for Scotland?

When I took out my FMP subscription my local library had access to Ancestry and I then HAD the best of both worlds with FMP at home – guess what, my library have decided not to renew with Ancestry – they’ve gone over to FMP!

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Dont think that FMP has a relationship with Scotland’s People just because they’ve got Scottish censuses unless they announce it publicly referring to it because Scotland’s People is a British government department. Ancestry dont have the images, just indexes and transcripts they compiled themselves from microfilm. Everyone is capable of making an error of course but its important that information we get is direct from the real thing otherwise anything we pay is not worth it.