Family Historian User Group

Colin, I would like to instal FH3 on Ubunto and wondered how successful you were?
Barry

Hi Ralf, I stayed with Ancestry because it does have much wider coverage but I still get frustrated with its inadequate search engine. Another recent posting to this forum describes how to get round its BMD failings. I take the view that if I pay for something it should work, not have to spend hours...

Thanks Irene, that was helpful. It seems all of them have their short comings.

Barry

Has anyone used this service? How does it compare with Ancestry.co.uk? I have already made my dissident views on Ancestry clear in another thread!

Barry

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Willingly, if I can find them again!!!

Plenty of people explaining the errors in Ancestry but no one complimenting them? Has anybody any experience of The Genealogist.co.uk? The claim high accuracy because they use UK volunteers with local knowledge to compile their indices. Although poor transcription may explain some of Ancestry's erro...

It may depend on how you are conducting your search? I have found Ancestry.com very poor at its relevance ratings (amongst other dissatisfactions) I can give chapter and verse on specific searches where in spite of completing every box with accurate information, the match was only three star or in o...