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WHAT? no way could it have been members of the public give them an award!!

Well deserved, I had a subscription to Ancestry for about six years, last year I was so fed up with them I took out a parallel subscription with find my past and hardly used Ancestry. I let the subscription lapse in October and haven’t missed it one bit.

I’ve found the opposite, and end up going back to Ancestry time and time again for ease of use, with a sigh of relief. I guess they both have their uses.

I wish that the organisation would spend more money on genes reunited to enable it to function better.
I would urge Bright Solid to read the issues reported in the suggestions board in order to be aware of the ongoing problems with the site for over the past 12 months.
Thank you.

Despite numerous efforts to find my Mother in Law in the 1911 Census was unable to do so. As sson as it was available on Ancestry found it first time! Both Ancestry and Find my Past have their uses and shortcomings.

I agree with Hilary and Chris. I have just joined Findmy past after changing from Ancestry. What a mistake. I can’t find my ancestors in census records of F.M.P. that I have found in Ancestry. Finding people is a nightmare.

A waste of money.

I am pleased to see that there is so much information available online now to family tree researchers but using the Internet alone has it’s faults and we really do need to keep an open mind about it’s limitations. The Internet has made us lazy and complacent about family tree research and it’s very easy to blame one website or another when things go wrong.
These websites are here to help us and I for one am grateful that they have saved me countless hours in a record office trawling through documents and microfilms. I will gladly forgive them for not being able to trace one or two ancestors – probably human error on the part of a transcriber; so for me the benefits outweigh the problems!

Interesting! I joined FMP and found it very difficult to find what I wanted and what I had already found on Ancestry! It was so frustrating. As soon as my subscription with FMP was up I joined Ancestry again, what a relief.

I think it is deserved, not least because FMP don’t transcribe dead people from the census and can identify the correct spellings. Whilst there are improvements in the search terms I would like to see, but in general I trust FMP and when they say they are releasing records they do and do not have 98% untranscribed and not released from ‘released records’ and they know which counties parishes are in.

I agree with what Sharon Vincent has said, if we don’t use archives offices they will close and how to research is being lost and you can’t digitise everything, it would also make family history boring anyway.

I was interested to read the posts of Joy, Roger and Janice as I totally disagree. I had originally only ever used Ancestry as I wanted the Scottish census record transcriptions. Ancestry is full of errors and is so complicated to use. Even if you find the correct household, you must click through every individual. When FMP announced it now had the 1851 census, I gave it a try and found it very easy to search and found straight away an entry which I just could not locate on Ancestry. You can print a nice neat transcription of the schedule, has anyone tried printing a Scottish census transcript on Ancestry – total nightmare! I can’t wait until FMP has the 1891 and 1901 Scottish census transcripts. Don’t get me wrong Ancestry is still good, but ease of use is sadly lacking.

If you don’t take my word, then trust my mother. She only uses FMP as she finds Ancestry utterly confusing and frustrating.

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