Anyone Know

[leefer]

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/

The site above is brilliant(if you like old stuff...i do!...some of the cases are brilliant and you learn alot about the sentences dished out etc.
Anyway as the WW1 records went online as from today i just wonder how Ancestry always get the records.
The site above is free and not ancestry but if you want to find out about family etc they are the people who charge you a tidy sum for the privelidge....so do Ancestry pay the government for having the privelidge of dishing out the info?...i just wondered as its a goldmine for ancestry though to be fair they do a good job.

[flammableBen]

I don't know anything about Ancestry. Do they just search multiple records for you? There's lot's out there, 100 year old censuses, church records, obituaries, other public records.

[leefer]

There is alot of free stuff out there Ben...but its usually very old stuff...Ancestry have records for just about every thing....but it costs and i just wondered who they pay for the privelidge of having the records..they specialise in family records.
Theres some great cases on that Baily link...just bang in a key word and you get dozens of cases.

[jonny72]

Pretty certain that Ancestry (or whoever) pays the government for the data, but more importantly has to then do all of the work digitising it. So if it wasn't for sites like Ancestry a lot of the data simply wouldn't be available.

The Mormons are pretty good with providing ancestry data, something to do with enabling people to get their relatives in to heaven or whatever they call theirs.

[Mexicano Rojo]

Mormons are shit hot, been to a big centre at reading years ago and sorted loads of stuff on my family.

[flammableBen]

yeah. The mormans go through everything they can find and do some sort of post blessing on people. They got in trouble I think because they started going through the holocaust records and some jewish folk got offended.

[yeo]

I like things like this,I have quite an unusual surname so its interesting to see what the Robus's have done through the ages.

Stealing spinsters Petticoats and Worsted Stockings I give you Moses Robus

M.)   MOSES  ROBUS , alias MOSES ROBINSON , was indicted for stealing one large hair trunk, value 2 s. one pair of stays, value 8 s. one silk slip, value 30 s. three cambrick frocks, value 30 s. four linen frocks, value 24 s. one light coloured quilted petticoat, value 4 s. three dimity petticoats, value 6 s. two flannel petticoats, value 2 s. nine linen shifts, value 18 s. six linen night caps, value 3 s. seven pair of thread stockings, value 7 s. one pair of worsted-stockings, value 1 s. two pair of leather shoes, value 4 s. one pair of stuff shoes, value 2 s. four gauze caps trimmed with blond lace, value 10 s. two pair of muslin cuffs, value 6 d. nine linen tuckers, value 9 d. two silk bonnets, value 1 s. one silk cloak trimmed with lace, value 2 s. two pair of leather gloves, value 6 d. one pair of silk mittens, value 6 d. six linen towels, value 1 s. 6 d. five linen handkerchiefs, value 2 s. 6 d. and three linen pockets, value 6 d. the property of   Margaret Mitchel , spinster , Jan 27th . ||

[leefer]

Not knocking them...getting boring now but do the government tender bids etc...also in cases such as the WW1 records is it really there right to sell them,after all they belong to all of us really and so we should be able to see them...for free in my opinion,your right about the Mormons....the Quakers have good records also.

[jonny72]

Not knocking them...getting boring now but do the government tender bids etc...also in cases such as the WW1 records is it really there right to sell them,after all they belong to all of us really and so we should be able to see them...for free in my opinion,your right about the Mormons....the Quakers have good records also.

Pretty certain you can view these and loads of other records for free. But you'd need to go to the National Archives (and book in advance) and spend ages trawling through records hoping to find what you want. Or you can now sit in front of your PC and spend a fraction of the time getting the information you want, in exchange for a small fee.

My dad is heavily in to genealogy and he was over the moon when they put the 1811 census online. He was more than happy to pay for it as it was so much quicker, easier and cheaper than viewing the records themselves.

[leefer]

That is very true...but it can get very pricey,but as you say they do a good job and its incredible what you can see now.

[tans]

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t18380101-375&div=t18380101-375&terms=tanswell#highlight

Ace, i nicked some pliers

[jonny72]

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t18380101-375&div=t18380101-375&terms=tanswell#highlight

Ace, i nicked some pliers

That new drama series on BBC1 on Sunday nights is well worth watching if you're in to all Old Bailey shit.