Find My Past £1 for 1month

[smudwhisk]

My mother (who has a separate subscription courtesy of previous half price offers) never used the old FindMyPast site but has few problems using the current version, and in fact has told me how to find some things.   Something that has caused great amusement in the family because my mother, who admits it herself, is not very good at finding things on the internet.

[Per Quist]

"Yes there were problems when they revamped the site and in my opinion a couple still remain but the information available outweighs the niggles in finding it.  It is still much easier than spending hours ploughing through records in record offices just to find maybe one piece of information as we did before these web sites got so many records.  Rosie "

So basically what you're saying is that if someone is thirsty and they only have a muddy pool from which to drink, they shouldn't be too dissatisfied because the alternative of having nothing to drink at all is much less preferable, even though the muddy water could easily be purified and made and made as potable as it once was.

[Per Quist]

Here in Australia, the offer ran out last Sunday I think.

Lucky you. ! When the FindMyPast crash of April 2014 happened and so many of the users of the British site version erupted, the users of the overseas site version which was basically the same as the new British site version, and which had been the only version that had been available to overseas users, were very surprised and shocked when they discovered that there had been a superior version which wasn't made available to them.

[silvery]

Agreed.

I can't find any reference to this offer. Can anyone supply the discount code please?

ErrorSPAM REPORT THIS POST AS SPAM (Use 'Report to Moderator'). DO NOT CLICK ON ANY LINKS IN THIS POST. DO NOT REPLY TO THIS PERSON.]Can anyone?[/color][/color]  [/color]  As I can't find anything either.

[CarolA3]

But apart from that, you think the sites OK?

Lidfam, I like your style

But what on earth is the point of these lengthy rants about something that happened 18 months ago on a particular website?  I have a subscription to FindMyPast and the changes weren't to my liking either, but I got over it.  As far as I know nobody died or had a nervous breakdown, and there were few complaints about being forced to drink muddy water

Time to move on, I think.

Carol

[Kevin Burrell]

Try this link for the offer...
http://www.findmypast.co.uk/offer-halloween?dclid=COCJuLH93cgCFSN62wod1wAMVQ

This was on a shared post on faceook.

I was one of those who left this site as a result of their changes - I had only renewed an annual subscription 3 weeks before they changed everything and seem to remember being very vocal on their site and facebook page:0). They definitely cleansed their facebook page quite often - they did give me an extra 3 months on the subscription, but I went to An***try anyway - I found their family tree section was taking between 30 seconds and 2 minutes to respond every time you clicked to add anything - very frustrating - looking at it now it is still the same - takes 5 seconds or less on my current site.

I do find the FindMyPast search can sometimes help when struggling to find records on An...try - so occasionally use FindMyPast to do the search and with the info it displays and can then find the right record on an...try. Fortunately I don't need a subscription to do that.

I will not be going back to FindMyPast - besides, since moving to an...try, I have managed to get in touch with 5 second cousins from paternal and maternal side that I did not know before and the information we can share between us has been extremely helpful and opened up so many new avenues.

[Josephine]

I have not had a problem with their downloaded images they have been easy to enlarge and are clear.

Yes there were problems when they revamped the site and in my opinion a couple still remain but the information available outweighs the niggles in finding it.  It is still much easier than spending hours ploughing through records in record offices just to find maybe one piece of information as we did before these web sites got so many records.   

Rosie

I agree. I preferred the site the way it was before and there is still much that could be done to improve it, but I have found documents on FindMyPast that aren't available online anywhere else. I appreciate the many record sets that they offer and hope (for our sakes and theirs) that they will improve the site.

Regards,
Josephine

[goldie61]

To save going to FindMyPast, the code is SPOOKY15.
Where's the button to check to say not to renew? The box on
"My Account" to auto-renew is unchecked, but when you go to the 'pay' page it just seems to say they will automatically renew after the month - got caught like that before!
Is there another one I need to find somewhere? Or more likely it's me not understanding the thing!
Thanks

[Kevin Burrell]

When logged in, go to My Account (top right hand corner of screen) and select personal details - bottom of that list is the auto renew check box - make sure it is NOT checked and then click Update.