1911 By Subscription.

[scriv2]

I have just subscribed to the 1911 this morning and have had great fun...

However I am worried about this 'fair usage policy' that has been mentioned here. Any idea what kind of limits you are talking about?

I am quite a browser amongst the records and flit to and from records and images to check people out.

[perth tiger]

I have just subscribed to the 1911 this morning and have had great fun...

However I am worried about this 'fair usage policy' that has been mentioned here. Any idea what kind of limits you are talking about?

I am quite a browser amongst the records and flit to and from records and images to check people out.

 i spent 6 hours on sunday looking through them and it didnt do anything. im sure its just for when the site is overrun by subscribers.

perth

[Moonstar36]

doh! forgive me but what is FindMyPast'


....have been reading through the posts re subs....and whilst I pay for Ancestry and for Scotland's People and occasional use of 1911 census....do believe that at the end of the day this data actually belongs to us and it should all be free...
please dont get all upset but it is after all data all about us that we have given one way or another...
when i first started looking through and found that there were vast differences between what data you got, in various formats and from who - it all just struck me as another way to 'tax' us on finding out the data we had helped to compile...   

[scriv2]

They  say that they have a limit of an average of 1000 credits per month in a 3 month rolling basis.

I have been dipping in and out of records today - and then even going back to them - not thinking I should have been watching consumption.

Ah well....

[spiderboy]

Hi scriv2

The Fair Usage policy is contained their Terms and Conditions and the relevance is that as it stands subscribers are restricted to an average of 1000 credits per month over a 3 month period. The issue is that for the earlier census returns the cost is 3 credits to view transcripts and 3 to download images whereas the 1911 costs 10 credits to view transcripts and 30 to download images. Assuming one was to concentrate on the 1911 alone it would mean that you are restricted to roughly 33 downloads of household images per month, if you were to have a combination of transcriptions and images it could reduce to 25. Obviously if they charge extra for downloading the R78 images, which by their own admission can be very useful, it will soon eat into those figures. If you then consider that you may well be tracing ancestors through the range of census returns and other records it subsequently reduces the figure even more. Although they have said that they will be reviewing the quota it has not yet happened. As apparently a lot of people feel that they were mislead by the marketing that took place last Xmas to promote new subscriptions they are naturally viewing the latest offer with a certain amount of suspicion particularly as FindMyPast have the right to charge us retrospectively or even suspend our subscription should we exceed the undisclosed quota.

Spiderboy.

I should have added that as far as I can see we, as subscribers, apparently have no means of checking how many credits we have used so the first we may know is when we receive an email from them.

[scriv2]

I agree, that is not good at all. That is some increase!

The joke is that I only downloaded two of the households which I viewed....I was just having a look around after just signing up this morning and flitted about as I do on ancestry.co.uk  without thinking.

I bet I spent a few hundred credits alone this morning with viewing at 30 a time - I viewed at least 6 images and  6 transcriptions.

Grr..

[spiderboy]

Hi Moonstar36

FindMyPast is FindmyPast, parent company brightsolid. The same firm who own the online 1911 census, Friends Reunited and Scotland’s People. All part of the Thompson empire who publish amongst other things the Beano comic.

Spiderboy.

[spiderboy]

Aah! Probably a bit late with this information, assuming that it is the same policy as it is with the PayAsYouGo system. “You will not be charged if you look at a record more than once within the same session. However, if you leave the site, sign out, or your connection is interrupted, you will be charged to view the record again. We recommend you print or save any images or transcripts you may wish to refer to later.” Still never mind, by my reckoning you’ve only spent about 240 credits of this month’s quota.  On a more serious note it does illustrate how quickly they can be consumed doesn’t it.

[scriv2]

Yes it does, esp as I kept going out of the site and back in again, it will probably be more than 240 for the rest of the month!!!