Findmypast this Friday

[northern_rose]

I wonder if OH and I could log in from separate PC's within the same house? We will try!

[stonechat]

Well we have three computers and two broadband lines
You're giving me ideas!

[Alan b]

It would be much more likely that they are logging the ip address - which then doesn't actually restrict to "per computer", hubby and I could both have valid accounts and one of us would be unable to use our 90 minutes because we would come from the same ip address

While that is true, you can quite easily change your IP address just by rebooting your router so that is probably why they haven't done it that way.

[alpinecottage]

I have to put my hand up - I have had two accounts with FindMyPast, one for my old computer, and one for new one on broadband; two different email addreses.....I tried to get two 90 min sessions, but it knew who I was and wouldn't let me have free access the second time   

I don't know how it did it, but it did.

[Just Kia]

That'll be ip address logging in that case.
Your ip address is what identifies your to the outside world on the internet - no two internet connections can have the same ip address at the same time. If you have multiple computers at home (ie one for you, one for your significant other, one for the dog) you will all have the same ip address (just like you have the same physical house address) and so only one of you will be able to log on - just keep your fingers crossed that the dog doesn't beat you to it!

[Peonie]

Just finished my 90 minutes, easy and quick. Might be our last chance today!!

Peonie

[Just Kia]

You can quite easily change your IP address just by rebooting your router so that is probably why they haven't done it that way.

Not so. Unless you have AOL (who allocate ip addresses for 60 minute periods and can change your ip address while you are actually online. At least they used to) it is unlikely that your ip address will change by rebooting the router or modem. IP addreses are often allocated in 24 hours blocks and unless they are inactive for a period of more than a couple of hours it is more probable that you will reboot and get th same ip address.
We've had the same virgin ip address for many months - only when we have upgraded has it actually changed (and no, we don't have a static ip assigned).

[Daisy Loo]

Well, I managed to get in today...just finished my 90 mins...and i managed to get 1 x 13 image service record, 1 x 18 image service record, and a few 1911 records of wider family members.  Oh, and a six page service record of a fella I had given up finding!

Thanks FindMyPast - much appreciated.  I won't be subscribing now, but I will refer to it a bit more, especially military records, on a PPV basis.  Very happy.  Now I'm off to read my records

[Siamese Girl]

The only thing that's been "free" for me is the 1911 census and I've run out of people I can think of to look up. One problme I've found with the 1900 census is a bit of a lack of house numbers/names in the returns. Just a street name doesn't help much.

Carole