Origins will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Findmypast. Ian Galbraith, founder of Origins, will continue to work with Findmypast on collection development. The extensive record sets from Origins will be brought into Findmypast over the next few months and the Origins website will continue to run as usual.This is interesting from the standpoint of the agreement between FamilySearch.org and findmypast.com. Will the newly added records be available to the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as part of the ongoing agreement? Will they also be included in the free access to patrons of the Family History Centers around the world? Presently, the members of the Church and anyone visiting a Family History Center can access findmypast.com for free. However, this access does not extend to other D.C. Thomson websites such as The British Newspaper Archive. This is the same as the situation with Ancestry.com which is also free to members and to patrons at Family History Centers. The agreement does not extend the free access members to Ancestry.com's other websites such as Fold3.com. But Fold3.com is available in Family History Centers.
It sounds like to me, as there are further acquisitions, the FamilySearch negotiators will be kept very busy and the patrons at the Family History Centers may be the beneficiaries of some of these acquisitions.
Please take the time to read the comments.
I recently got my "free" access to FindMyPast and was very disappointed. It turns out we have free access to FindMyPast's U.S. and Canada collection, but not to their UK collection. If you want access to the UK collection you have to pay the regular price of $19.95 per month. This is pretty disappointing since the primary reason for subscribing to FindMyPast is their UK collection. The records in their U.S. and Canada collection are widely available elsewhere. Kind of makes you wonder who got the best end of this deal!
ReplyDeleteIt is my understanding that the findmypast.com database has all of the same records as the UK database or will have the same shortly.
DeleteHere's an email we got from the "FindMyPast Support Team:"
DeleteThank you for your email.
The Family Search subscription does not cover all of our available records I am afraid.
I have copied a list of record sets which are currently not included in the Family Search subscription below:
Newspaper collections
India Office Records
Electoral Rolls
Royal Marine Medal Roll 1914-1920
Royal Naval Division 1914-1919
Royal Naval Officers Medal Roll 1914-1920
UK Parish Registers 1538-1911
Army Roll of Honour 1939-1945
British PoW Officers Aug 1914 - Nov 1918
De Ruvigny Scrolls
De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1918
Distinguished Conduct Medal citations 1914-1920
Ireland's Memorial Records of the Great War
List and Careers of Officers of the Indian Army 1760 to 1837 Bengal, Madras and Bombay Presidencies.
National Roll of The Great War
National Roll Scrolls
Naval Casualties 1914-1919
WW2 PoWs - officers of Empire
WW2 PoWs - British Navy & Air Force officers
Soldiers Died in The Great War
The Great War London Gazettes
Waterloo Medal Roll 1815
Waterloo Scrolls
WW1 Scrolls
WW2 PoWs - British Army held in Gmn territories
WW2 Scrolls
Silver War Badge rolls
Victoria Cross Recipients 1857-2007
Dorset Marriage Register
Surrey Marriage Register
Griffith's Valuation 1847-1864
I hope this helps,
findmypast.co.uk Support Team
Well, well, well. This is something the all of the "free subscribers" ought to know. Neither MyHeritage.com nor Ancestry.com have this type of limitation, that I know of.
DeleteI currently subscribe to both Origins and Find My Past sites for UK research - when can I expect a refund on the balance of my Origins subscription? Or will the Origins subscription terms 'drop off' at the renewal date? SEW Australia
ReplyDeleteAccording to the press release, Origins.net will continue to operate as usual, at least for the time being. I am guessing that there will be no refunds.
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