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Offline kerryb

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Re: "Access the Birth, Marriage and Death Index for nothing"
« Reply #36 on: Thursday 19 January 06 18:14 GMT (UK) »
I too received the email this morning from Ancestry!

Trouble is just before Christmas I paid for a full year with Ancestry.co.uk.

Talk about putting the knife in and turning!!!!!!!!!!

Can I get money back do you think???

Kerry
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Searching for my family - Baldwin - Sussex, Middlesex, Cork, Pilbeam - Sussex, Harmer - Sussex, Terry - Surrey, Kent, Rhoades - Lincs, Roffey - Surrey, Traies - Devon & Middlesex & many many more to be found on my website ....

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Re: "Access the Birth, Marriage and Death Index for nothing"
« Reply #37 on: Thursday 19 January 06 20:45 GMT (UK) »

Its certainly not free to someone who has never subscribed to ancestry. I'm not happy at the false advertising.

I had to REGISTER just to use it - now I'm going to be bombarded with useless spam emails.

I refuse to give ancestry my credit card details just to try the 14 day free trial.

I guess the free index is only offered to those who have already subscribed - in which case its not really free, right?

I tried several names, and on every name I tried I could only read two pages before I got the "oops sorry we are very busy right now" page.

Ancestry sucks - as always  >:(

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BURROW, BICKHAM, EVANS, SULLEY, STONE - Devon
STEPHENS, MALLET, ADAMS - Cornwall
HANCOCK , BUSSON - Somerset
MCCALLUM, MCDIARMID, MCNEILL - Argyle, Scotland
WALLS, SUTHERLAND, SIMPSON - Orkney, Scotland
FAIRBAIRN - Fife, Scotland
THOMPSON - Aberdeen, Scotland

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Re: "Access the Birth, Marriage and Death Index for nothing"
« Reply #38 on: Thursday 19 January 06 21:01 GMT (UK) »
Ive never subscribed before Burrow Digger -  and only heard about it through this link and a mention of it my hubby heard on radio 2 the other day..

I have been able to search their FreeBMD index - occasionally it is coming up busy but thats probably because so many people are searching right now. 

Mind you I havent been able to find the two people i want  ::)
Jones, Venner, Kenealy, Morphett, Tree, Maxted, Page, all from or around Lydd, Ivychurch, Romney Marsh.<br />Also<br />Twyman, Daisy Kent/Thanet Area.<br />Also<br />Fidler, Berkshire.  Butcher, Faversham.<br />Also<br />Everson Suffolk/Norfolk<br />Knights, Vann (Wenn) Norfolk
Hilden - Kent and surrounding areas (romany gypsy connections)

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Re: "Access the Birth, Marriage and Death Index for nothing"
« Reply #39 on: Thursday 19 January 06 21:03 GMT (UK) »
So if I understand that right!!---

they are not offering the free offer to people who don't subscribe, just to people who have already subscribed??

Is it me!! ??? ??? ::) ::) ??? ???

Kerry
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Searching for my family - Baldwin - Sussex, Middlesex, Cork, Pilbeam - Sussex, Harmer - Sussex, Terry - Surrey, Kent, Rhoades - Lincs, Roffey - Surrey, Traies - Devon & Middlesex & many many more to be found on my website ....

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Re: "Access the Birth, Marriage and Death Index for nothing"
« Reply #40 on: Thursday 19 January 06 21:16 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: kerryb on Thursday 19 January 06 21:03 GMT (UK)
So if I understand that right!!---

they are not offering the free offer to people who don't subscribe, just to people who have already subscribed??

Is it me!! ??? ??? ::) ::) ??? ???

Kerry

That seems to correct Kerry.
I only registered because of reading this thread.
Maybe I will try again later when the server is not so busy.

BD
BURROW, BICKHAM, EVANS, SULLEY, STONE - Devon
STEPHENS, MALLET, ADAMS - Cornwall
HANCOCK , BUSSON - Somerset
MCCALLUM, MCDIARMID, MCNEILL - Argyle, Scotland
WALLS, SUTHERLAND, SIMPSON - Orkney, Scotland
FAIRBAIRN - Fife, Scotland
THOMPSON - Aberdeen, Scotland

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Re: "Access the Birth, Marriage and Death Index for nothing"
« Reply #41 on: Thursday 19 January 06 21:18 GMT (UK) »
Well I've heard it all now, I've paid an annual subscription fee to get something free!

I'm going to lie down.  I have a headache!!

Kerry
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Re: "Access the Birth, Marriage and Death Index for Free"
« Reply #42 on: Thursday 19 January 06 21:29 GMT (UK) »

The word has obviously got out  ;D  Ancestry seems to be on a complete meltdown,  it won't even do a basic census search for me at the moment  ???
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Sussex - Knapp. Nailard. Potten. Coleman. Pomfrey. Carter. Picknell
Greenwich/Woolwich. - Clowting. Davis. Kitts. Ferguson. Lowther. Carvalho. Pressman. Redknap. Argent.
Hertfordshire - Sturgeon. Bird. Rule. Claxton. Taylor. Braggins

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Re: "Access the Birth, Marriage and Death Index for Free"
« Reply #43 on: Thursday 19 January 06 21:50 GMT (UK) »
Hi,
I,d like to have a go of this, but please could someone who is experienced with them, tell me if the registration with them -which seems strangely compulsory for a non-sbscription situation -does this open you to a lot of time wasting rubbishy contacts from them (and others they may pass your email on to??Sue
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Re: "Access the Birth, Marriage and Death Index for Free"
« Reply #44 on: Thursday 19 January 06 21:55 GMT (UK) »
Most of the time i find my annual subscription to ancestry good mainly due to the census range it covers. I do have a subscription to thegenealogist.co.uk too though which i have used for whatever 1841 census stuff they have + their bmd stuff etc. I do find that i end up having IGI/ancestry/thegenealogist/freebmd/rootschat all open at once and do searches on mutiple sites at the same time. Couldn't manage if i have broadband though. Maybe i'm just obsessed.

Only just found the bmd stuff on ancestry today and like others i had no email (saying that i don't receive any emails or spam from them at all!)

David
Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk<br /><br /><br /><br />Swansea (Glamorgan) - Reynish/Johnson<br />Yorkshire/Durham - Pinkney/Richardson/Robinson/Gill<br />Wiltshire - Hibberd<br />London/Surrey - Clark<br />Lincolnshire/Nottinghamshire - Spencer, Broughton, Sprigg, Martin<br />Cornwall - Sowden<br />Herefordshire/Shropshire/Wales - Worrall<br />Essex - Saville<br />Dorset - Atkins, Govier<br />Devon - Wakely, Parsons
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