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Maureen

Maureen Report 14 Apr 2007 14:36

Last year i took advantage of a 'special offer' and for 50.00 i have been able to trawl all through what was 1837(.)com looking for people that i only had a rough idea of BMD. This is now up for renewal and i am told that for 89.00 i can also look at census. Does this make it a better proposition than Ancestry that i also belong to at the moment? Maureen

Trudy

Trudy Report 14 Apr 2007 14:42

wouldn't have thought so Maureen, but before you decide, log onto both, see what you can look at and then see what the differences are. Looby

Maureen

Maureen Report 14 Apr 2007 14:54

Looby. It says for 89.00 i can look at passenger lists, 1841,61,71,91 census (strange- wonder why not the others?) Military Collections. BMD and 10 free searches of living relatives maureen

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 14 Apr 2007 15:35

The censuses available on findmypast are those quoted. They do not have 1851, 1881 or 1901. They do, however, offer an address search facility for those censuses which they have. The overseas BMD section is on findmypast, but not on Ancestry Reg

Maureen

Maureen Report 14 Apr 2007 17:03

So in other words Reggie - i still really need both!! Maureen

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 14 Apr 2007 23:23

Actually I think you only need findmypast for the address search facility, the overseas bmd section, passenger lists. and the 10 free searches of living relatives! All the censuses are on ancestry, so why have two subs to access some of those censuses? Although, I have found the 1841 sometimes easier on findmypast!! I take 3 month memberships in findmypast as and when I need it.

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