Find My Past V Ancestry

[sigma]

I have a subscription to Ancestry, is there anything on Find My Past that isn't on Ancestry to deem it worth while taking out a subscription to FMP.

[jno]

they do have differences but whether it's worth subscribing to for that reason is really up to you. If you find 12 ancestors you didn't know you had, would you think it was worth it?

Have you checked whether your local library has a subscription? You could get a taster that way.

[DJHawkes]

well they have linked up the marriages before 1915 which is useful, but not enough to warrant the second subs. you can work it out on ancestry in a few minutes usually. FMP also has far less records, I did use it again briefly earlier this year, but it wasn't any better and definately lacking some of the things i needed. I find using familysearch.org is not as simple or as effective as it used to be and that's annoying. Of course the huge difference between ancestry and FMP is the use of other researchers work, not always accurate and sometime blatently wrong but more often than not it's of great use,

[craft1948]

I subscribe to both, overall I find ancestry the better site but FMP is very useful for tracing people by address in censuses, and if you're searching for living rellies have just added electoral rolls 2002-2013.

[soapnumpty]

FMP has transcribed all of the parish records i need (hertfordshire) whereas Ancestry does not. However FMP is free in my local library so it would be worth checking if it is in yours too. On the whole I thnk Ancestry is much better, unless there is something specific you want on FMP.

[Rose Maybud]

I continue to subscribe to both. I used FMP first because they had the 1911 Census; and found they had a whole load more pre-1837 Parish Records than Ancestry. I find the FMP search algorithm more suited to my way of thinking: you get only what you asked for. I compiled nearly the whole of my updated tree from FMP. I then chose to record all of this on Ancestry. Some 'missing' census records turned up - due to transcription differences.
As to info on FMP that Ancestry doesn't have - seems to be a race as to who can get the next 'must have' source - at present FMP has some digitised newspapers which I haven't come across on Ancestry; and I have come across some choice snippets. The lesson is, to check regularly who has what...

[Iolanthe]

I would say "Yes", it's worth subscribing to both, as I often run them side by side. What can be found in one is not always in the other, and the results are presented in somewhat different ways.

It does depend on what you're looking for. I have found masses of info on FMP which isn't available on Ancestry, as my background is entirely Welsh, and Ancestry hasn't published what I want, yet. Conversely, my husband's ancestrey is 100% English, and he has rarely used FMP, as most of what he needs is on Ancestry.

So my advice is: decide what you probably need to find out, and work with Ancestry for a while, and then you may find you won't need FMP.
The other thing I could suggest: if you know anyone with a FMP subscription and perhaps they could look up something for you on an ad hoc basis.