Genes Reunited - all resources free for 2 hours on New Years Eve

[SwissGill]

I'm only a standard member and was thinking of upgrading when my other UK subscription ends.

I actually only wanted to test how efficient it was but at first kept getting the message Essential maintenance" matters and "please make your search details more specific", searches that Ancestry delivers in seconds.

Why they didn't open up for free for the whole afternoon, or day, is beyond me. The short period was doomed before it started.

I will not be subscribing, and will end my standard membership.

Their comments on the free 2 (3) hours should be interesting........

[snowyw]

I have standard membership, but did not get any notification....and now I've missed it!!  Bah!!

[SwissGill]

The only notification I had was from reading this thread!

It was neatly tucked away on the website under "Start your Family Tree Week - 26th December - 1st January". 

[mrs.tenacious]

Didn't know they'd extended it, that'll teach me to give up. 

Tenacious by name........

However, my OH thought I was mad - until I told him how much it would've cost me to view them all on pay-per-view!

Happy New Year to all   

Mrs. T.

[Roobarb]

Well done Mrs T!

I even made tea early so I could get on with it, having listed all the ones I was looking for on the 1911. Oh well, I'll just have to wait for the next freebie, it's too expensive otherwise!

I got my invitation by email, they say if something seems to be too good to be true, it usually is! 

[youngtug]

I left it trying to load while I had a meal, still trying to load when I had finished. Not to much of a problem, I can access the 1911 and ancestry free at the local library.

[BassinghamTerrier]

I must be pretty unique then!
I'm only a free non-paying memebr but I got well over twenty original screenshots downloded.
Yes, it DID crarsh two or three times, but I persevered and got what I needed (for the most part)

I also worked on the assumption that they would feel guilty about the 'maintenance work' and extend the two hours briefly, so I stuck at it. At 9:00 precisely it stopped dead and offered me the different subscription rates.

It did also speed up dramatically after 8:00 so I presume that the vast majority of folks gave up at that point, expecting it to be the cut-off.

S'pose I just got lucky!

MT