Findmypast this Friday

[Silvilocks]

I'd love to - I was seriously impressed with the site. But I'm far enough back on my tree now that I'm not using censuses and BMD's much, and I spend what money I have for my hobby on the specific parish records that I need. I wouldn't have paid for the 1911 census as it was only to fill in background information, but I wasn't going to turn it down for free  I'm hoping FindMyPast are going to listen to all the people clamouring for them to bring in a scheme to take out membership for a short period, as I would use that from time to time. But I can't justify paying for a long membership when I know I won't use the site that much.

[annie24b]

I joined last year when they said that it included all their records - only to find out afterwards that it didn't include 1911 census. Quite a few of us were fooled & complained to them, but to no avail.

I wont be joining again - loads of records  that don't appear on their site, yet can be found on others (Ancestry). I 've reported a few transcription errors to them as well (which could easily be seen to be wrong on originals) but they refused to change them - so I dont bother telling them now 

[Sloe Gin]

I joined last year when they said that it included all their records - only to find out afterwards that it didn't include 1911 census. Quite a few of us were fooled & complained to them, but to no avail.

No good complaining to them!  Their advertising campaign was indeed seriously misleading, and people should have taken it to the Office of Fair Trading or Trading Standards or whatever it is.  I haven't heard of anyone doing so, so it looks like they got away with it. 

[annie24b]

actually, I did complain to  trading standards and to OFT and was told they couldn't do anything because by the time they investigated FindMyPast had changed their website 

[7igerby7he7ail]

Managed to trace down one 'missing' line via the census'
I already had my grandmother in the 1911 cens by that time married to my grandfather, so I looked for her father and found him in '11,'01,'91,'81 and '71 he was born in 1865. What I didn't know was that the whole family moved to a different part of the country. So then I looked for her my great great grandfather and found him 1841 to 1881 and also my 3x great grandfather born in 1790 in the 41 and 51 census. Also identified a whole lot of siblings and aunts, uncles and cousins of my grandmother I will need to track down.

Well worth it I reckon and not being a footie fan, gives me something to do

[Paul Caswell]

Managed to trace down one 'missing' line via the census'
I already had my grandmother in the 1911 cens by that time married to my grandfather, so I looked for her father and found him in '11,'01,'91,'81 and '71 he was born in 1865. What I didn't know was that the whole family moved to a different part of the country. So then I looked for her my great great grandfather and found him 1841 to 1881 and also my 3x great grandfather born in 1790 in the 41 and 51 census. Also identified a whole lot of siblings and aunts, uncles and cousins of my grandmother I will need to track down.

Well worth it I reckon and not being a footie fan, gives me something to do

What an amazing advance!! I am very happy for you.

This puts my "what regiment of the Dragoon Guards my gt uncle was in in Aldershot?" quest a little lame.

Paul

[Jellis]

I can also report an exciting find. 

I found my husband's grandfather's brother's Military records.  What an exciting life for a young lad spending time in China and Singapore.  Such a pity he contracted STD's which ruined his later life.  He never had children.  He married a widow who had lots of children and they separated, perhaps he passed on the disease to her.

[Bill749]

I found on the first night that their servers couldn't cope with the demand - probably why they changed to an all-day offer on the second occasion! 
I found several of my family on the 1911 census.  I haven't really looked to see what else might be useful to me.
Having traced my family on most lines back to the 17th century or beyond, most of what I am doing now is filling in the gaps and coming forward on various lines.
I won't be subscribing - as most of the records I need are available locally I don't often use the internet and I object to paying commercial organisations (especially non-British ones like Ancestry, etc.) for access to material that is in the public domain.

[kob3203]

This is just what I'd been waiting for! I had a dozen or so very promising search results from previous investigations at FindMyPast. I'd even saved the search result pages to my PC so that I could simply open my saved page and click the link...

Well, that was the plan! Unfortunately it didn't work. But not a real problem, it just meant doing the search again

Still, when you get something for free it's rather churlish to complain, eh! 

And I was very pleased with the results - I've discovered a fair bit of new information and some new leads.

Pete

Re subscribing? I'd consider it if they had a monthly option, and I've mentioned this on their feedback forms.