A few weeks ago I treated myself to the full Ancestry subscription and have had much fun wandering digitally (i.e. with my fingers) around the world's records.
So many US databases and their census information! Canada - I salute you for your various records. And European stuff too. I love that, when hunting in a Paris births index, Ancestry warned me that I'd have to search in French and that the results would also be in French! Can't beat Ancestry for helpfulness.....
And not forgetting Australia - another country with some magnificent online records (I particularly enjoy their newspapers at http://trove.nla.gov.au/. Their national BMD indexes are very thorough - showing parents' names at almost every opportunity. So, in about 30 minutes, I'd extracted about 10 times as many names as I could in a similar time on UK records.
But therein lies a bit of a problem for me........ it feels a bit like shooting fish in a barrel. That is, it's too easy, there's no real challenge in it. Whisper it very quietly but....I was almost bored. Perhaps next time I will have to limit myself to one small family........
Apart from that minor snag, I'm loving the freedom to follow my rellies across the Pond or around the world. So far I've discovered only people who went of their own accord but, hey, who can tell what's going to turn up. That's the joy of this!
More soon.
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