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 Post subject: Ancestry.co.uk
PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 7:15 am 
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I've been told that Ancestry are offering free access to the 1911 census. I've just gone to the site and did get a pop up saying free access but delving further, it's possibly just the index that has free access. I don't have tiome to go into further until later this morning unfortunately.

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 Post subject: Re: Ancestry.co.uk
PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 9:31 am 
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Ooooo make take a peek. Thanks Mel.

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It's all there for free, you can even view the original.

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That's great news. Any idea how long for?

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It just says "Free limited time only"

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From LFHHS yahoo forum

For anyone who is interested, and doesn't already know -- a whole lot of Parish records for the Manchester area (including some from a few Bolton, Tottington, Rochdale and Rossendale churches) -- have been published on the Ancestry site.

These can be accessed easily by clicking 'View all new records' in the centre of the Home Page screen.

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Thanks Gloria.

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Ancestry has lots of photos of original birth/marriage certs/parish records online now. They haven't done them all but I have found quite a few of mine.

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Are these ones that members have posted? I've found some that I never bothered to send for as I already have the vital information from them. But they're nice to have if you don't have to pay for them

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No they are the actual ones. Do you have a sub to ancestry?

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I assume you mean the parish records they did the deal for with Preston. It's great to see so much online now.

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Yes Mel---It's brilliant. Saves sitting for hours at Preston and getting side tracked, which I always do :lol:
P.S. if you want me to look for someone just shout.

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Thanks Gloria :)

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Yes Gloria - I've got Ancestry. I bought some credits for FMP to try it out. It does have a few things that Ancestry doesn't, but I just found the searching process frustrating. Of course it might just be that I'm very familiar with Ancestry now.

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Apparently there is free census access on Ancestry during the bank holiday weekend.


Now I'm the other way. I prefer the search on FMP. I think it is a much more intelligent search function than Ancestry.

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