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[scriv2]

Thanks a lot, Rosie....at least that is something!

[spiderboy]

A little more information regarding the fair usage quota from the spokesperson on the 1911 blog, posted yesterday.
“we raised the fair usage limit earlier this week to 5000 credits per month as an interim measure ……. We will continue to review the limit and set a new one shortly based on activity in the coming weeks”. 
So I guess that for anyone involved in extensive research it’ll be worth keeping an eye on their Terms and Conditions for changes. Incidentally he goes on to say that although the data and images on each site are the same, because they offer different features and use a different search engine it may mean that the search results will be different.

[les_looking]

I would have to agree with Kerry and Pauline etc, i don't think for the individual user the fair users policy is to harsh, i have been a "user" of FindMyPast since the days it was 1871 and have used it to my hearts content for years and never had a warning re usage, and hopefully will still be the same,

I do understand those who think the info is ours but if it was free, who would pay for the work that has gone into transcribing and making available the info?
not sure the vast majority of tax payers would agree that making it at the expense of EVERYONE is a good use of the countries coffers, family history has taken of in the last few years but it is still a small minority that would benefit.

You hear about so many of the family history centres closing because of funding, i personally would prefer
that the information is there to pay for than not available at all, Yes Brightsolid and Ancestery are making ££'s, but at the moment they are selling something that people want and i again personally have no issues with them running a successful business, again i would prefer that, than the information was restricted due to cost, don't forget that FOI very rarely means FREE

[perth tiger]

looks like all the other images we wanted are now online. oh and they are free to look at 

[rich23434565]

I'm getting a bit sick of having a 'time out' notice if I search for anything that involves more than a first name and surname 

[LizzieW]

Rich - I've never had a time out on FindMyPast, so not sure why you would get this.

Lizzie

[rich23434565]

Rich - I've never had a time out on FindMyPast, so not sure why you would get this.

Lizzie

No idea, but it's getting on my wick!

Your search has taken too long to process and has therefore stopped.

Either try resubmitting your search or redefine to reduce the size of the search you are attempting.

e.g. looking for people with the first name 'Samuel, born in India within 4 years of 1867. I mean how difficult can it be to provide a search engine that can compute the results. 

I've never had a time out with Ancestry. 

Edit: I've given up with it and I'm now having to search county by county as the 1911 search engine is incapable of performing the search for the entire country. I tried the same search on Ancestry and it took about 3 seconds to provide the results. 

[rosie99]

Hi

On the odd occasion when I have had problems with searches timing out on the FindMyPast 1911 I have gone on to their other 1911 site http://www.1911census.co.uk/search/tnaform.aspx  found it on there and used the info gleaned from the search to get it on FindMyPast (if that makes sense.)

Rosie

[perth tiger]

iv had a couple of time outs when the info i have provided has resulted in too many answers. just try searching in the year +- 1 then changing it. iv had them on freebmd aswell.

perth