Baptist Handbooks 1832-1955 have arrived on #FindMyPast
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-records/britain-baptist-handbooks-1832-1955 #£ #Baptist #nonconformist genchat @genealogy @geneadons #genealogy
Tfw I have found a person of interest on the 1841 census in #FindMyPast.
Being a good bunny I want to find them/it on Ancestry to link to my tree.
I could just do a screen grab off FMP and attach that.
But no. Being the devoted (obsessed) bod I am I spend half an hour doing battle with confused transcriptions and even worse presentations of search results until I finally get it.
:(
I'm considering my options; #Ancestry does have records of use to me that aren't available elsewhere. OTOH, #FindMyPast have an odd (to my mind) way of going about things, making their site more awkward to use.
Agree 100% about 'Pro Tools'.
As you say, it's bloody pricey now. 
I have precious little outside the UK, but will be giving #FamilySearch more use.
#TheMultiphone
#CBG
#CigarBoxGuitar
#FamilyHistory
Photo from the latest batch of old newspapers added to the British Newspaper Archive on #FindMyPast ... From The People's Friend of February 1900.
An advertisement promoting what appears to be a musical instrument devised in Hades.
@genchat@lor.sh @genchat@a.gup.pe
Happy New Year to you, #Genchat , in return.
Yesterday saw me finally posting a batch of local #Birmingham news sheets published around the period of WW1 to the British Newspaper Archive at Boston Spa, Lincolnshire, for scanning and publishing on #FindMyPast
I'm revisiting (and updating) posts and boost from my old account that I want to close eventually (the account).
Here's two blog posts from the British Newspaper Archive (ie the FindMyPast genealogy subscription website). These give you a more specific look into what newspapers they cover:
From Dec 2024:
https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2024/12/16/an-edwardian-christmas/
From Jan 2023:
https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2023/01/03/new-titles-3-jan-2023/
Everything is free this weekend on #FindMyPast #Genchat @genealogy @geneadons #genealogy
#Findmypast https://www.findmypast.co.uk/search-newspapers Is making its Newspapers free this weekend, 25-28 October. It is the same content as the British Newspaper Archive #BNA #genchat @genealogy @geneadons #genealogy
@jonnypencils
I know; It's not like it's getting harder - #ancestry, #findmypast, and goodness knows who else, all have plenty of high quality images available these days.
Sure, multiple subscriptions are pricey...
It's usually blind transcribers at #Ancestry I'm tutting at in despair, but this time it's #FindmyPast, who have transcribed a Wigan ancestor's occupation as:
'Hindu in Bottom Mill'.
Looking at the original it's actually 'minder', and in fact it's for the person above, not even my ancestor.
An all round fail and a reminder to always ALWAYS look at the original and never trust other people's transcriptions!!
#FindMyPast has added to its collection of school registers. This morning I've dipped into the beginnings of Bearwood Road school, Smethwick. The trials and tribulations and the first inspector's report.
Really rather good :)
FindmyPast launches global British Home Children database https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2024/02/findmypast-launches-global-british-home.html #genealogy #FamilyHistory #FindMyPast
Yesterday's release of new records from Find My Past includes a membership list for Scotland's Buchanan Society.
I imagined it would be like the Freemasons or the Buffs.
But no ... It's simpler than that.
(Great for disambiguation!)
Have just been looking something up on the British Newspaper Archive on #FindMyPast and came across this advert in the Birmingham Daily Post in February 1940.
Caradium Hair colour restorer with a magic ingredient !!
@GenealCymru that's why I prefer #FindMyPast, the search process is a lot cleaner.
Similar but different: my third great grandmother died in 1823. I found her burial record as index only on #FindMyPast. It seems she died in/after childbirth as her baby daughter who survived to adulthood was baptised on the same day as her burial - but with baptism records only on Ancestry.
The "system" isn't always helpful in spotting sad coincidences such as these.
The history of the Old Old Meeting, the New Old Meeting and the New Meeting (yes it's confusing) is very interesting. Worth dipping into the British Newspaper Archive on #FindMyPast as to the reports in the local press.
Somewhere on the Internet (possibly BNA) there's an inventory of items destroyed at the Old Old Meeting ... includes musical instruments and music/hymns ... at a time when the "C of E" took a really dim view of people having a sing in church 
A niche collection of Roman Catholic records has arrived on #FindMyPast https://www.findmypast.co.uk/blog/new/northampton-roman-catholic-records#Northamptonshire #Catholic #genealogy #nonconformist @genealogy @geneadons
Looks like #FindMyPast have omitted or removed street search for the 1921 census. Feel sure I've used it for 1921 before??
Looking at today's updated records on #FindMyPast I see electoral registers/voter lists going up to 2023 ... in other words live information.
I know that elsewhere the online voter lists come up into the 2010s.
Having live data somehow makes me feel slightly uncomfortable.
