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Title: Find my Past subscriptions
Post by: BumbleB on Sunday 21 August 22 18:03 BST (UK)
Does anyone have any knowledge of a discount for FindMyPast?  My subscription is due for renewal at the beginning of September.  As far as I can see I can get a 15% discount for automatic renewal.  Anyone have any other ideas, please?

Title: Re: Find my Past subscriptions
Post by: frances-b on Tuesday 30 August 22 13:44 BST (UK)
I don’t know about any discounts for FindMyPast subs beyond the 15% “loyalty” discount.  I’ve had an email this morning upping the price by £20.00 for my renewal in early September :o.
Title: Re: Find my Past subscriptions
Post by: BumbleB on Tuesday 30 August 22 13:46 BST (UK)
Ditto - ah, well!
Title: Re: Find my Past subscriptions
Post by: lisalisa on Tuesday 30 August 22 15:03 BST (UK)
in prior years, when I have not auto-renewed, I had at least the same discount and often better discounts offered in the weeks afterwards.
So it might pay to let it expire and see what happens.
Title: Re: Find my Past subscriptions
Post by: Biggles50 on Wednesday 31 August 22 11:10 BST (UK)
Quote from: lisalisa on Tuesday 30 August 22 15:03 BST (UK)
in prior years, when I have not auto-renewed, I had at least the same discount and often better discounts offered in the weeks afterwards.
So it might pay to let it expire and see what happens.

+1

If you do let it expire then do create and download a Gedcom or sync your tree with compatible software like Legacy.

Title: Re: Find my Past subscriptions
Post by: BumbleB on Wednesday 31 August 22 11:16 BST (UK)
Thanks for the advice, Biggles50, but it doesn't really apply to me.  I have no trees anywhere online, and an offer of 15% discount on £180 per year is OK too - after all that works out to be a cost of less than 50p per day.  As I use FindMyPast every day it's not a problem.
Title: Re: Find my Past subscriptions
Post by: Biggles50 on Wednesday 31 August 22 15:00 BST (UK)
At £180 a year and with no online tree I would be tempted to drop FindMyPast and go with Ancestry, my Worldwide Ancestry annual subs cost £90 in July.
Title: Re: Find my Past subscriptions
Post by: BumbleB on Wednesday 31 August 22 15:08 BST (UK)
BUT I also have Ancestry, not worldwide.  For me FindMyPast is much more useful as it tends to focus on England/UK, plus there are additions to records EVERY week of the year.  Added to which OH and I share the costs and information gained as we are both doing our own family histories.

AND I have no intention of EVER putting a tree onto either site, although I have no objections to providing knowledge, which I have gained over the years, to others.

Title: Re: Find my Past subscriptions
Post by: Biggles50 on Wednesday 31 August 22 16:13 BST (UK)
Nothing wrong with that.

Our Ancestry trees are set to Private so of no use to anyone, plus with having the trees there mean that they work very well with linking to DNA matches.

For us it is a belt a braces state, thus adding redundancy to the records, hence if anyone reading this thread has either an online tree Or a software tree on a PC or Mac is seriously risking it, if they do not have Backups.
Title: Re: Find my Past subscriptions
Post by: BumbleB on Wednesday 31 August 22 16:18 BST (UK)
And, yes, I do have backup for my computer-based trees.

Title: Re: Find my Past subscriptions
Post by: Pinetree on Thursday 08 September 22 11:21 BST (UK)
Probably too late and you may have seen it anyway but they are currently offering 20% off any subscription.

Pinetree
Title: Re: Find my Past subscriptions
Post by: BumbleB on Thursday 08 September 22 11:50 BST (UK)
Yes, I've already renewed at 15% discount.