[BITList] Fwd: Fwd: Merchant Sailors Records, 1855-1948 (featuring Tony Robinson) - YouTube

[John Feltham]

G’day Hugh,

On 14 Mar 2014, at 2:47 am, HUGH <chakdara at btinternet.com> wrote:

Ancestry.com does not cover the world, as one comment states.  They buy 
access to public records and charge the public for access to them online. 
It has no access to Scottish records whatever.

Any records they have which are not digital copies of official records are 
transcriptions.  I have helped a few poor souls who were in receipt of weird 
and wonderful transcriptions of the Scottish census lists.  They paid for 
access to them.

To gain access to what they have you can generally go to your local Library. Most Libraries have a group subscription.. At least they do here in Australia.

Making a booking is usually essential.

I use Ancestry very sparingly and with great carefulness.

The information contained in there is not always correct.

Always use the original document to support any information - if possible.


ooroo

The palest ink is more reliable than the strongest memory.

Chinese Proverb.




-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.bcn.mythic-beasts.com/pipermail/bitlist/attachments/20140314/065ea2db/attachment.htm