1911 census and Ancestry

[sigma]

Is there any reason why the 1911 census is not available on Ancestry

[mxyzptlk]

Probably wouldn't pay the high premium to have it early. I assume it will be there next year when it becomes widely available.

[cazzz1975]

its on findmypast, I have a yearly subscription for all records including the 1911 census

[craft1948]

I'll remember that cazzz...........I have memberships of ancestry and the genealogist.

[askyourgran]

Can anyone tell me which is the best one to start with, I didn't realise there were so many sites. I've been told it is expensive once you get going and i'm not sure how to start.

[craft1948]

Hello gran...........the most popular and the one I use the most is ancestry. They do I think, offer a free trial. I think this costs me about £80 a year and that's not the all singing all dancing membership as that's about £125 a year.
You can access ancestry at the library but I prefer to do my research from home.

[dothawkes31]

Hi gran
I pay £18 a month to ancestry via my debit card, it goes out on or after the 1st of each month but if at any time I want to suspend using ancestry for any reason I just ring them a week or two into a month and ask them not to take the payment for the next month. For that I get full international access, which to be honest I don't really use an awful lot, but then I never quite can predict when I would need it.
As craft says, you can access most of ancestry.co,uk's resources free in your local library, that is the service I recommend people who are just starting out as they won;t be wasting a subscription whilst they learn how the site and the records work. There are drawbacks of course, like limited access during busy times or restriction on opening times in some smaller libraries , but generally there are also people in the library who can offer help and support which is useful.

The 1911 census cost a fortune to be transcribed and the work took along time, find my past have invested alot into offering it on a subscription, but you don't need to use their site, you can use the 1911 site to access the records in smaller chunks by buying pay as you go credits.

I have not read that ancestry.co.uk intend investing in the index and I would imagine the find my past deal has exclusivity clauses built into it, but I could be wrong.

[Barmaid]

Craft - what do you find is the difference between ancestry and the genealogist? What has the latter got that the former hasn't?

Just that I've reached a dead end with some stuff and was thinking of getting another subscription.

[craft1948]

I suppose it's just transcription differences............I've found quite a few people on censuses on the genealogist that I couldn't find on ancestry, plus sometimes I need to trawl through original records of births, deaths etc
Overall if I could only subscribe to one site it would be ancestry.
If you can't find someone on ancestry I'm quite happy to have a look on genealogist.