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Hi All
looking to do a bit on research of our ancestry, however the free searches aren't for free, Ancestry, find my past immediately takeyou into a pay to view st up
Any free sites, after all these records are in the public records/ census, Your experience please
Go to your local records office, where you'll gain free access.
will that be paper records or computer based ?
If I had the time I'd suck up the subscription and get stuck into Ancestry.com. My MIL started hers 5 yrs ago and has 11000 members in her tree 😯 She's also pieced together loads of mine and has turned into a right little investigator.
It helps if you have a bunch of names, locations and occupations going back say 100 years.
Ancestry.com seems to be having a free access weekend until the end of tomorrow, so now's the time to fill your boots. UK records only though - you still have to pay for the rest.
[quote=smartay ]will that be paper records or computer based ?
In mine it's now mostly computer based. I think some old Parish records might still be on fiche though.
I thought access to stuff like Registry House was still paid access? maybe not.
Other than Ancestry, other place is the Mormons -- Family Search I think it is -- but you'd have to double check the records that they give as results..
I took a good deal of research on part of my family - Stirling - as done by a couple of uncles and cousins, and followed that further, filling in details, to generate a family tree. I used that detail to fill in the other 3/4 of my ancestry, on my other grand parents that didn't get the full treatment, and found a heap of interesting stuff, great aunts that my mum didn't know about, tracing mum's family back to darkest Accrington & Haworth..