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xx Chelle xx

xx Chelle xx Report 18 Nov 2007 19:15

Find my past? Is it easy to use? I noticed on the front page that there isant a thing you can click on for UK do i have to use the american thingy??

Nicki

Nicki Report 18 Nov 2007 19:17

findmypast is really easy to use. I have no problem searching on it and getting info.

Nicki

xx Chelle xx

xx Chelle xx Report 18 Nov 2007 19:19

When you signed up for it was it the american logo you clicked onto?

Nicki

Nicki Report 18 Nov 2007 19:21

http://www.findmypast.com/

is what I log on to.
Hope this helps
Nicki

xx Chelle xx

xx Chelle xx Report 18 Nov 2007 19:23

Thanks Nicola will have ago :)) xx

Michael

Michael Report 18 Nov 2007 20:00

Find My Past is much better than Genes Reunited for doing BMD searches. GR doesn't index the pages properly so you will often pay for pages that don't contain the name you are looking for. This week, after searching for some names over a 25yr period (4 quarters per year), I took extensive notes and found the error rate was astonishingly high. In only 2 years were all the pages correct. In the others the errors were 25-75% !!!! GR's only response was to trickle out replacement credits.

In contrast the Find My Past pages are fully indexed (they know the first and last name on every page) so you'll get the information right the first time. It does seem to cost a little more, but the greater accuracy saves a lot of time and wasted spending on GR credits.

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 18 Nov 2007 20:42

What's the advantage to using find my past for bmd searches when freebmd is a FREE site, and is the official site for all bmds from the inception of registation in September 1837?

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

Michael

Michael Report 21 Nov 2007 19:50

FreeBMD is still very incomplete in both chronological and geographic coverage, especially for the 20th century. I *know* exactly where and when my great-grandfather died and have seen the original registry record, but he's not listed in a district that is supposedly >99% done.

I would certainly use freeBMD first, and that's what I've been using up till recently but I hit too many dead-ends. I picked up quite a bit in a short time under Find My Past this week. I like FreeBMD because you have a choice of image types. Find My PAst uses the djvu type which is fast to load but a bit more painful to look at later, so if I find something on FMP I go back to FreeBMD, and if it's there grab a JPG copy. GR is worst of all, apart from the problems I outlined above, they insist on putting their images inside PDFs which means a bigger, slower download.