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

[EEK]

What a shambles. If that's the best GR's IT dept can do, I'm sticking with Ancestry. For 2 hours I've been trying to access records and getting nowhere. They must have realised there would be a huge number of members trying to access the 1911 census. If they couldn't cope with extra demand they shouldn't have offered it. I stayed in near my computer instead of accepting New Year invitations, to no avail. I didn't manage to access one of my 17 prepared queries.
Eileen

[cawood]

I tried to get on the site for 35 mins and then got message that maintenance work was being carried out. Tried again and it had crashed. Gave up after 4th attempt.  Happy new year to you all xx



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[old rowley]

After reading the posts on here about the trouble with getting on to the GR site I thought that I would give it  miss as too many people would be using it . However I did try it at 19.50, chucked my information in and bingo! straight to the correct entry. Only trouble that I had was that my printer decides that now is the moment to run out of paper and ink at the same time lol. However I have a blueish copy of it printed off plus my rushed notes from it which I can combine together and use. Tried my luck in getting another entry and the last I saw of it, it was still trying to load at 20.15 before I came off.

OR.

[Roobarb]

I stayed in near my computer instead of accepting New Year invitations, to no avail.
Eileen

Eileen, you still have time to get out there and celebrate!

I got nothing, nowt, nix, nada! 

[mrs.tenacious]

Spent the first 45 mins tearing my hair out, along with the rest of you. I just knew it would be like this, but they obviously didn't.

However, stuck with it, and managed to get 13 records, but only because they extended it to 9pm.  That was about half of what I'd sorted out previously in anticipation. 

I suppose it's better than a poke in the eye with a blunt stick though 

Mrs. T.

[phil56]

I agree that perseverance paid off. I obtained and printed 12 x 1911 census records which gave me the details of all my grandparents and g-grandparents plus the gg grandparents who were still living, so not a bad return; system did speed up quite a bit after 8pm .

Now time to relax and enjoy ! A Happy New Year to all RootsChatters  

[Roger The Hat]

Despite the extra hour, I was unable to view or download anything.

Good luck to those who did, but I won't bother with GR in future.

 

[Roobarb]

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

[Marmaduke 123]

Well, sounds as if they didn't manage to cope with the rush! When will they ever learn!

Anne