24 September 2013  Why I use FindMyPast (Tuesday's Tip)  I am a
big fan of FindMyPast for genealogy research. For records that
are on both FindMyPast and other sites such as Ancestry,
FindMyPast's indexes and transcriptions are (in my experience)
much more accurate. This is particularly obvious with British
census records.  A 'world subscription' to FindMyPast allows you
to search records for Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom,
Ireland, USA and Canada (including Irish newspapers and the
British Newspaper Archive). In mid-2013 there were more than
1.8 billion records available, and that number is growing
rapidly. In Aug 2013, for example, FindMyPast added ten new data
sets (2 million records) for Australasia alone, plus many
records for other areas.   Searches are free. (HINT: Try
entering a surname in the Keywords field. This finds entries in
records that are searchable PDF files, such as digitised books
and newspapers.) To see transcriptions or images of original
records, you need to buy either pay-as-yo