Ancestry.co.uk

[DuzyEverwork]

Hi, don't even know if this is in the right section.. have any of you used Ancestry.co.uk and if so, once you have paid the anual subs do you have to pay any more to access the archives?
Ta everyone

[craft1948]

Yes I belong to that site Duzy and the genealogist, both on annual subscription..........what exactly were you wanting?

[DuzyEverwork]

Well lots of things really, I have just started investigating and have quickly come to realise that I will need more information than I can get for free. AFAIK the family ends with me and there is only my mum and I left of the original line and she is fascinated at what I have found so far so I feel inspired to carry on. I have looked into several sites but it seems that Ancestry.co.uk has more of the answers than most so I thought I would go with them.
Perhaps you can help with one more thing, when you search a birth how much information do you get, is it only the mothers maiden name?
I have never heard of the genealogist though, is it a similar think?
Thanks for your help

[dot.haukes]

The General register Office Index has been transcribed by ancestry.co.uk to make it wasy to search for a specific birth. You will be able to look at the transcribed index under the name you want and what you see on the screen is the childs name a month and year which tells you which quarter of the year the event took place, as the registration year is divided into 4,jan feb mar.apr may jun/jul aug sept/oct nov dec.
then you will have the name of the registration district and a vol and page number from the original register.
In later indexes from about 1911 the mother;'s maiden name is included.
Once you have found a possible birth on ancestry that is useful and you think may be the one you want, you then can use that information to order a certified copy of the birth registration from the lkocal register office or ancestry.co.uk thenselves. the thing about the local offices is that iot only costs �7, but you would need to get the address etc, but that's easily done online.
Once you get the birth certificate you should get the date and place of birth, the childs christian name if ealry or the childs christian name and surname of later. the name of the mother and usually father, the occupation of the father, and later the mother,

i would also add that if you are still learning how the sources work you may want to go to your local library and use ancestry.co.uk library edition for free whilst you get used to how it works, rather than spending alot of money learning how it works and wasting your money.

[dot.haukes]

oh and if you look under the History topic to the left on here
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there is a Genealogy sub-topic for when you need any further help.

[DuzyEverwork]

I am a bit stuck with the local library thing as I am in Spain! Thank you for you help.

[DuzyEverwork]

In a mountain town between Malaga and Granada

[DuzyEverwork]

Pity you're not in Mile End Old Town 'cos that's where most of my rellys were!

[dot.haukes]

I tried posting a reply here but it hasn't appeared, I was posting the link to the East of London Family History Society, they would be invaluable to you whilst you're trying to do your research from Spain, ancestry.co.uk is great for the basic genealogical sources like the GRO index for births deaths and marriages and the census returns, but for local sources the society would be a great help and it is ver reasonable to become a membery

http://store.eolfhs.org.uk/acatalog/storeconte nts.html
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[DuzyEverwork]

Thanks Dot for that link, I will subscribe. It seems at first glance my relatives didn't move about too much, neither the London lot or the Margate lot so I might be lucky!
Carabint - we are here for the duration, came 8 years ago!