which is the best site

[pushybabe1]

i am thinking of subscribing to a geneology site so i can look up family records but would value answerbankers opinions to which they consider the best, both for value and content thanx

[Count-A-Strong]

Ancestry.co.uk is the most comprehensive but it comes at a price (about £120 a year I believe)

[dotty.]

I pay £12.95 a month on a rolling account with ancestry.co.,uk and i can stop or start that as I wish. it gies me access to all the ancestry.co.uk UK records I need. I I wanted to upgrade at any time to the £18.95 a month international one I can.
I also us familysearch.org a.lot to dip into the IGI for parish registers, that is free online.
alot swear by genesreunited but that is for compliling your tree and swapping info, which you should always verify,

[Barmaid]

I tend to use ancestry.co.uk (you can have a monthly deal which is more expensive than buying a year's subscription, I think it is about £19 per month). I also use findmypast and again you can either have an annual subscription or pay as you go.

I really like ancestry.co.uk - although there are some hideous transcription errors (as there are on all sites). It's very good if you use it in conjunction with Family Tree Maker because you can automatically search for relations and match them to other trees.

[dotty.]

ancestry hae transcribed Elton John's birth entry incorrectly even, see my post below!

[craft1948]

I use ancestry, thegenealogist, findmypast, and familysearch.org. If I had to choose just one to subscribe to it would be ancestry. I also pay as you go on ScotlandsPeople.

[pushybabe1]

thanx all i did consider ancestry but as i may have to delve into irish records i could become stuck with these as i know alot of records were destroyed by a fire (i think) so as long as an irish site contains parish records i might get some info, so what is the best irish site for these, thanx

[dotty.]

It was not as great a loss to Irish Genealogy as has been thought as in more recent times other sources hae been recoered disoered or restored:
http://www.ancestry.c...icle.aspx?article=660
records of parish registers were kept in the churches
The irish ciil registration index is still available.
http://www.irishtimes...browse/records/state/
http://www.rootsweb.a...nna/guide/census.html

[dotty.]

I hae a copy here of matheson's report of 1894 which will help narrow your search down if you know the surnames u need

[pushybabe1]

thanx dotty the surname i need is siney, many thanx again to all

[craft1948]

audi1961 has siney in her family.....

[dotty.]

The Matheson report was compiled in from the 1890 Birth Index for all Irland and contains names that had 5 or more instances of a suname entered in the registers. The provinces are also included next to the names, but the name siney does not appear in the index at all, that means it was quite a rare name at that time in Ireland, but it does show on the IGI in england back to the 1820s.

[pushybabe1]

thanx craft1948 audi1961 is a relative, but dotty what is the igi index to the 1820s you are referring to as i havent heard of it?

[craft1948]

http://www.familysear...h/frameset_search.asp