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Re: To pay or not to pay

Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:37 am
by grangers14
1851 Census
Trinity, Worcester St Martin
William Taall, head, 35, Journeyman Nailor, Cradley
Charlotte, wife, 30, Esam(?)
Hephziba, daur, 12,
William, son, 9,
Mary, daur, 7, St Peters
Helenor, daur, 5, St Martin
Thomas, son, 2, St Martin

Re: To pay or not to pay

Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:45 am
by grangers14
St John the Baptist, Claines,
William Teal of this Parish, Bachelor and Charlotte Williams of this Parish, Spinster.
Married by Banns 18th July 1836, In the presence of Charles Williams and Ann Bayliss

Re: To pay or not to pay

Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 1:12 pm
by Jimmy
Extracted.

CHARLOTTE WILLIAMS.
Christening, 10 FEB 1821, Claines, Worcester.
Parents:
JAMES WILLIAMS.
JANE.

Re: To pay or not to pay

Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 1:23 pm
by Jimmy
1841. Evesham.
James Williams 67.
Mary Williams 69.
Charlotte Teal 21.
William Teal 3 weeks.
James Johns 20.

Re: To pay or not to pay

Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 8:00 pm
by Paul-E
Wow thanks everyone for the info!

Got some very interesting stuff listed so thanks a lot for all your knowledge and for taking time out to help.
I'm gonna spend time going through all the details listed and see whats what.

I'm going to join ancestry tonite as well so fingers crossed from here on in.

Once again thankyou to you all.

Paul

Re: To pay or not to pay

Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 9:01 pm
by Jimmy
Hi Paul,

Any time let us know what you are after, Its better than watching the telly :P

Re: To pay or not to pay

Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 10:11 pm
by Paul-E
Thanks Jimmy,

Much more fascinating than anything shown on tv these days. Problem is by the time we put the little one to bed I start research around 8'ish and before I know it, it is 1am. They say time flies when your enjoying yourself! Helen wants me to trace her family now as well.......she will have to wait, it is confusing enough trying to fathom my own family out :lol:

Paul

Re: To pay or not to pay

Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 10:13 pm
by peterd
well paul as jimmy said were here if we can help

Re: To pay or not to pay

Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:16 pm
by mallosa
Paul-E wrote:Thanks Jimmy,

Much more fascinating than anything shown on tv these days. Problem is by the time we put the little one to bed I start research around 8'ish and before I know it, it is 1am. They say time flies when your enjoying yourself! Helen wants me to trace her family now as well.......she will have to wait, it is confusing enough trying to fathom my own family out :lol:

Paul


Hi Paul, we know what you mean....... don't we Pete? :roll:

Re: To pay or not to pay

Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:41 pm
by peterd
yep sometime 2 or 3 :?

Re: To pay or not to pay

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:50 am
by Northern Lass
Jimmy wrote:Hi Paul,

Any time let us know what you are after, Its better than watching the telly :P


Unless it is the X factor eh Jimmy
:lol: :wink:

Yes Paul just ask :grin:

Re: To pay or not to pay

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:09 am
by Jimmy
I am not saying anything :roll: :roll:

Re: To pay or not to pay

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:12 am
by MarkCDodd
Ancestry suffers from "Copy the bad data" syndrome.

People get informed there is a match and then absorb the data into their tree ithout bothering to check.

But, if you are carefull, the amount of usefull data you can get from others research is huge.

Their newest addition that tells you when somebody has edited a person in their tree thatmatches somebody in your tree is brilliant!

Their transcriptions are pathetic! Their search engine has no real soundex ability.

So...I also use "The Genealogist" run by S&N.

It has the most accurate transcriptions. The best search engine. (Their beta family forename search is fantastic).

They are adding new databases all the time and eventaully, due to their excellent range of Parish records, will have the best church records.

Re: To pay or not to pay

Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 10:13 am
by gardener
Mmm, sounds good Mark but do you know their policy on sharing? Ancestry seem to be fairly relaxed and encourage you to send images to others but not so sure about them. There was quite a run-in with them about copyright on another genealogy-board a few years ago I think. As far as I recall the only cd I ever had from them was sealed and breaking the seal = agreeing to strict terms of usage which made me very nervous - mindyou I always wait for the green man before I cross the road :-)

Re: To pay or not to pay

Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 10:52 am
by MarkCDodd
They don't really care about the images. Most of the books they use are available for free elsewhere. S&N adds some very clever search engines to the book and that is what you pay for when you buy an S&N product or use The Genealogist.

They did spend a lot more money on their scanning of census etc than Ancestry did.

If you compare their scans next to the Ancestry ones you can almost forgive the Ancestry transcribers their mistakes.

Their new Non Conformist BMD is fantastic. You can search the non-conformist records the same as you can the normals BDM.

I just wish they would hurry up with the Shropshire/Staffordshire registers.