From: G6JPG-255@255soft.uk   
      
   In message , Keith Nuttle   
    writes:   
   >On 4/21/2019 3:54 AM, MB wrote:   
   >> On 21/04/2019 07:12, Peter wrote:   
   >>> Just starting into genealogy.  And very confusing it is too.   
   >>> Thank you for the information.   
   >>> Petefj   
   >>  Find someone with an interest in the subject and an Ancestry or FMP   
   >>account, possibly in the local FHS.   
   >>  It can be surprising how much you can find sometimes in quite a   
   >>short time.   
      
   Indeed; these days, especially with access to an Ancestry or FMP account   
   (but even with just FreeBMD and the GRO if you don't hit any walls), you   
   can get a fair-sized tree in a short time. (For UK folk, that is.)   
   >>   
   >I am in the US.  Our library are mostly free, but I am 700 miles of   
   As are ours, and most have Ancestry or FMP.   
   >where my ancestors lived.  However using the resources on the internet   
   >I have been able to lean a lot about my families for about 7   
   >generations from the online document images.   
   >   
   >While some people complain about the cost of Ancestry, the subscription   
   >works out to about $20 US/week.  That does not go very far toward the   
      
   It sounds a lot when you put it like that!   
      
   >cost of the gasoline to get to the archives that contain the   
      
   Indeed, I would very rarely even consider going to an archive where the   
   records were on Ancestry. (OK, distances are shorter here, but fuel is   
   about 1.30 pounds a *litre* ...) Archives have more comprehensive and   
   further-back records than Ancestry and FMP, though.   
      
   >information you need.   We are also very lucky in the US to have the   
   >extensive online records that the Mormon's maintain which is free to   
   >all.   
      
   We have access to them here too - and they cover quite a lot of here   
   too. (I recommend their "Durham Diocese Bishop's Transcripts" - sadly   
   _not_ *indexed*, but divided into parishes and within those into time   
   blocks, and cover _lots_ of Northumberland, Durham, Cumberland, and   
   Yorkshire.)   
   []   
   >Fortunately/Unfortunately most of us in the US are only able to push   
   >our families back into the early 1700's so we do not have the rarer   
   >documents that are available in Europe.   I can only imagine living in   
   >an area where the histories go back a thousand years or more.   
   >   
   Me too (-:. Online, we can mostly only get to early 1700s, or late 16xx,   
   too; visiting archives _if_ they have the parish records will in most   
   cases only get you to 15xx, and then only if you can be sure you're   
   following the right line (the information in the typical parish record   
   before printed forms is usually pretty minimal, and not enough to be   
   sure you've got the right person). The only records that go back a   
   _long_ way tend to be ones for aristocratic families and royalty - and   
   some of _those_ are fanciful rather than accurate.   
   >   
   So it isn't a "golden area" of easy ancient records!   
   >   
   (I'm talking England/Scotland/Wales [Ireland - big fire in Dublin castle   
   in the 1920s lost a lot - odd copies keep turning up from around   
   Ireland]. Rest of Europe I know little of - though people I've spoken to   
   say German records are good, despite what one might expect due to wars.)   
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