Genealogy Chat

Hi I live in England. I did start my membership through the (com) site rather than (co uk.) I have looked on the(com) site & I dont think you can be just the uk bit now that way! Even if I add VAT on it's only about £65! Penny

I love Ancestry, my renewal cost me £69.95 in January Linda

Penny. Are you living outside England. If so you do not get charged VAT making it cheaper. Also I think you might be charged at the price you first got it at. Margaret

I thought I would mention that all BMD information is free on Ancestry. http://www.ancestry.*co.uk/search/rectype/vital/freebmd/bmd.aspx remove *

Lucky you !, sure I had heard it had gone up to £79, I paid £69.95 last June.

It is due on the 16th March. Received renewal information email on 1st March!!

Penny, when is your Ancestry due renewal? It may be crediting you if you are part way through the year and were to renew today.

Thanks for your thoughts. My renewal note from Ancestry says my renewal fee is £55.96. Strange how it varies - just like on here :-) Penny

i find ancestry excellent value, having only fully subscribed a couple of months ago, before that it was trips to the library 8 miles away every time i wanted to do census look-ups, or anything thats not on the free bit, by the time you take in to account petrol and parking costs i think £69.95 was well spent. I also took the plunge this week and purchased £5.00 [50 credits] on findmypast, after reading on these boards various people found they wasted their credits ive actually found it quite good, the searching costs nothing and if its not the correct result so you dont go in to it, it wont use your credits up, however I did find the passenger lists dissapointing just the initial letter and surname, so if your tracing a common name could probably work out quite expensive, though the credits do last 3 months . Nicky

I prefer Ancestry personaly I have an anuall sub which gives unlimited access to all of the UK records. All BMD indexes (up to 2005 if your luckey - I've found some) are free on Ancestry anyway so I wouldn't recommend anyone pay to see them on other site (inc find my past, family relatives etc..) unless the quarter is missing on ancestry (some have been mistranscribed rather than missing) I do like the census address searches on findm my past and the immigration stuff but am holding out on getting creadits until I have more to look up other wise I'll just waste money.

Penny, Ancestry has just gone up to £79.95 I think from £69.95. Findmypast does not have the same coverage for census as Ancestry, but the BMD is indexed upt to 1920 I believe on FMP. Pros and cons to both sites, but I am with Ancestry.

sorry, thought you were on about this site, havent used ancestry, but am looking at their site now, on this site you use 1 credit for each page of the bmd

I have a years subscription for findmypast , cost about £70 and i find it is probably cheaper than ancestry for the bmd index as on ancestry you have to use 1 credit for each page your looking at whereas my subscription package on findmypast is discovery package and i get unlimited access to bmd 1837-2004, i have managed to find loads of bits and pieces i would not have found otherwise this of course is my opinion and i've only been doing this for a couple of months stephanie

Ancestry is about £60 per year. Penny Am off out will look in again later

My Ancestry renewal is up next week but I have just had an email offering me Find my past com - 6 months for £30. Just wonder what views people had on both!? Penny

What do people prefer?