Paid subscriptions - which would you see as the 'must haves'?

spurious

While I realise there are ways to access records more cheaply than online subscription sites, if you were to limit yourself to two or three subs, which ones would you see as 'must haves' and why?

Ancestry?
Findmypast?
Rootsireland?
IrishNewsArchives?
Others?

Myself I have an ancestry sub and do one week/month/day to other sites as I need them.

pinkypinky

I think FMP and occasional subs to Rootsireland & INA. Ancestry only if working on American cases.

Jellybaby1

My Ancestry sub came to an end, and then changed to FMP. I think I prefer Ancestry, although FMP did give me one tiny snippet of information which cleared up a mystery, but nothing else new. I really wish I had the Irish Newspaper Archives as well.

L1011

I do occasional short sub binges on INA (I suspect that's why the 3/7 day options are gone!) and pretty much rely on free access on the other two big sites now. Spent far too much money on PPV access to Rootsireland and Scotlands People in the early days as well as having a full Ancestry sub at the time.

tabbey

I subscribe currently to FMP and roots.

Newspapers are searched by optical character recognition, so with older newspapers, smaller print and poor inking, the odds of finding a given article are slim. FMP includes British Newspaper archive which has Irish papers as well as English, Welsh and Scottish.
Therefore finding what you seek is a lottery.

Although I use FMP a lot for newspapers, and look at INA in libraries, I would not pay for a news only service.

shanew

FMP and RootsIreland, and usually IrishNewsArchive