Ooh, excellent.
I used to be very prejudiced against FMP because I hated their search interface, but I've been using it a lot recently, especially for the new Leicestershire records, and it has the enormous advantage over Ancestry that you can use any wildcard search you like: for example you can search for a person called A* N* or S*l*n*g* or whatever.
I've made more progress with my numerous Leics lines since the new records came out a couple of weeks ago than in the last 10 years, despite often visiting the record office, buying wills and ordering films from the local Family Search Centre. The key factor in the progress I've made is the online wills, which unfortunately aren't in the Birmingham and Westminster release.
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