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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Topic started by: RJ_Paton on Saturday 11 April 15 22:18 BST (UK)
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For 20 free credits see http://www.scotlandnow.dailyrecord.co.uk/lifestyle/heritage/trace-your-ancestry-free-credits-5466919
Offer ends 30th April
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Thanks Falkyrn, I'd run out of credits. ;D
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Maybe I am missing something but it doesn't tell you how you get the credits
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Go to www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
Click "buy more credits"
Enter voucher code "scotlandnow" and click "use voucher"
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You get 20 credits for each account you have on SP.
I have two accounts and I got 20 credits on each.
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Go to www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
Click "buy more credits"
Enter voucher code "scotlandnow" and click "use voucher"
Thank you
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Thank you Falkryn , love this site.
Brosie.
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It worked for me in NZ, thankyou so much. It would cost me $60 normally.
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It worked for me in NZ, thankyou so much. It would cost me $60 normally.
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My friend in Christchuch gets 30 credits for under $14.
$60 would get her about 120 credits or more depending on exchange rate.
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That worked! Thank you from me too. ;D
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Thanks from me too - I'd just used my last few credits a week ago.
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Thanks from the USA
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Falkyrn,
Thanks for heads up ;D..............now passed on :P
Annie
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Thank you from Australia.
Norma
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Thanks from me as well, only had one credit left. .... just enough to get a few certs :D
Cheers
KHP
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And me too! Just when I have a few more to investigate! Thanks
Jeanne 😄
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Thanks for the info. I was down to 3 credits, and was looking for Scottish people to buy more. this will enable me to do more searching from Oz
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Thank you Falkyrn, for bringing this to our attention.
Also, thank you to Scotlands People for their very generous offer.
We have been holding off increasing our Credits of late, due to the exchange rate of the Australian Dollar. This will help us continue a little while longer, until the conversion increases.
Jeanette H.
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Thanks Falkyrn - was getting very low in credits.
Much healthier now!
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Do the free credits have an expiry date?
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Do the free credits have an expiry date?
By law they are limited to 365 days, just like if you had paid for them
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8761 hours - haven't worked that out in days yet! ;D
Sorry Huckleberry - we posted together.
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Worked for too...thank you Falkryn ;)
Joy
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Thank you Falkyrn. :)
Terry
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Thank you for the code. Spent part of yesterday evening trying to find it.
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It worked for me in NZ, thankyou so much. It would cost me $60 normally.
Something's not right there. The standard charge is £7 for 30 credits. At today's exchange rate that is NZ$13.59. So if you are really being charged NZ$60 for 30 credits, someone is ripping you off.
Mind you, NZ$60 for 30 credits would be NZ$2 per credit, so one certificate would cost NZ$12, which compares quite favourably with the NZ$20.40 currently being charged by the NZ Department of Internal Affairs for each BMD certificate.
Isn't Scotland's People wonderful?
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Thank you Falkryn, much appreciated :D
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I'm in NZ, been with SP for a good number of year! I'm sure I can't remember ever paying that much! I was out of work for a few years, due to illness, and just wouldn't have been able to afford it!
Mind you, I'm not infallible, can't remember much at all these days without looking it up!😊
I do remember about 2-3 years ago it was about NZ 33cents to the pound, but that still wouldn't come up to $60 for £7. UNLESS....if you paid by bank draft or telegraphic transfer through the Bank, then you're certainly into arm and leg territory!
I recently purchased a book from Mansfield Museum in Nottingham, about a woman artist of my ancestors family.
This little book only cost £2 plus postage, so total cost asked for was £10, and I was very OK with that. So, I couldn't pay for it online, I had to get the Bank to transfer it, or get a draft. I came out of the Bank, having paid $49 NZ dollars! For £10GBP. Bank Charges for a few taps on her computer!
But when the book arrived, i thought to myself if I'd known what was in it, I would have paid a lot more and still been happy - if the money was going to the Museum of course. Apart from all the great references to my family in the book, there was one bit in particular that made me jump up and down, and that was a transcript of a letter from home to this artist which stated " Mother and Father are very distressed. Jane ran away from home to marry that Henry Mathews!!"
That Jane and Henry Mathews were my great grandparents! What a thrill that was, worth every penny and more.! Just like when I hit on a goodie in SP. The curator at the Museum who I spoke to about ordering the book originally, later emailed me, she knew what I was going to find in the book about my great grandparents, But didn't tell me - said she didn't want to spoil the surprise!
Anyway that's my tuppence worth for today, I can't imagine when or if that exchange rate would have been so high, to cost that much for 30 credits! I dunno, but we can certainly save ourselves a lot of money by paying online!
Bedtime for me now - g'night all, and I'm off to SP tomorrow, hopefully to use up all my new credits, got a bunch of searches all ready and waiting!
Have a good day
Cheers😄
Jeanne
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Thanks for letting us know about this offer. It was the quickest and easiest free credits, for me anyway, to date.
Sandra
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Thank you for sharing. Interesting 28 replies and 484 views. Think you have made many more people very ;D happy today.
Regards
Sandra
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A lot of smiley faces about :D it's great what a freebie can do ;D ;D
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Falkyrn
Thanks for info, just got 120 free credits as I have 6 accounts running.
Whoopee
Rustypup
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thank you for posting this,
just claimed my 20 free credits :)
magiccat
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Love this! Thanks for sharing!
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Got mine yesterday :)
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Thanks Falkyrn!
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Would just like to say thank you Falkyrn I have no ancestors in Scotland so it is not a website I would use, however I do have a sibling of one of my great grandparents who "migrated" to Scotland so that has allowed me to research other records to find out more about their family
But what is much more exciting is my great aunt who I knew very well her husband died before I was born, she was not married in the 1911 and I have never found a marriage for them, family stories say he was Irish or Scottish and little more and it is one brick wall I have thinking that I will not find any more until the next census release about his birth place simply because of you sharing these free credit I started to look for potentials....and after some research leading me to the Irish census I think I may have just found him, born in Ireland of Scottish parents, still only a potential and I will still need more record proof however it has given me a new line to research with this brick wall...so a BIG thank you
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Thanks Falkyrn.
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Friends,
log on to Scotlandspeople click buy more credits enter the promotion code scotlandnow
and you will get 20 free credits, only until 31 April.
New users will have to complete a registration form.
Cheers
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Hi
Yes, its listed on another thread - 37 replies BUT 1418 views - must be lots of Happy People ;D
The expiry is 30 th April - (No 31 st in April ;D)
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=717988.0 (Merged)
Sandra
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Anyone ever bought a 60 credit start up voucher?
free credit code works on these too. Woo Hoo !
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Thanks for this, I've no ancestors from Scotland but it looks as though my husbands Irish gg gf was there in 1901 - I wanted to view the image as A* has transcribed his occupation into gobbledegook, FindMyPast had something that made more sense, wanted to make my own mind up.
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Registered today, got my 20 free credits. So thanks everybody.
Got my first marriage with no problems. From this information I checked on familysearch for another marriage. William Watt to Mary Strachan on 3rd June 1853 Brechin. Checked on Scotlandspeople it showed this marriage, so I downloaded. Unfortunately it sent the other page of the register.
Don't know what happened.
Am I allowed to put the full marriage from Scotlandspeople on my Rootschat thread ?
And thanks to Scotlandspeople.
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Am I allowed to put the full marriage from Scotlandspeople on my Rootschat thread ?
just post a snippet - not the whole page!
Yes indeed thanks to Scotlands People - it has been a good 'gift'!!
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William Watt to Mary Strachan on 3rd June 1853 Brechin. Checked on Scotlandspeople it showed this marriage, so I downloaded. Unfortunately it sent the other page of the register.
In 1853 there was no statutory civil register - this started only in 1855.
So what you have can only be an extract from the parish register kept by the Church of Scotland. The Brechin ones can be quite long, and sometimes extend from one page on to the next.
Why not contact SP through the reporting link on the download page, tell them that you have got the wrong page and ask them to send you the right one?
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Wiggy and Forfarian,
A shame I can't put a fully transcribed marriage. As it helps prove the research and the connections.
I have sent ScotlandsPeople a report for the wrong marriage download. They have emailed, they are looking in to it.
Thank you.
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A shame I can't put a fully transcribed marriage.
I don't think there is anything against putting your own transcription of the information in the marriage entry, is there?
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Am I allowed to put the full marriage from Scotlandspeople on my Rootschat thread ?
Transcriptions are allowed , please don't post images as these are copyright.
ev
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ScotlandsPeople refunded me for one incorrect marriage download.
So I tried again, it missed my marriage by another page. I gave the correct information gained from familysearch.org. Entered all this information correctly in the search boxes, so in theory it should download my marriage.
ScotlandsPeople thanks for the refund, but this is so fustrating.