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[/b], were very surprised and shocked when they discovered that there had been a superior version which wasn't made available to them.
Can you elaborate on that (the above bold and underlined)? I am with Findmypast UK, and not AU (I'm in Aus). I was a fully paid up subscriber with them( not anymore) , and still hold an account which I just use for pay as you go these days, and to the best of my knowledge I am and have been with Dot UK, especially when there was no such thing as an AU site until a few years ago.
The same as ancestry - I have never been a member of AU site ( although I can access it, because I have a world sub. I first had an ancestry sub with Com , this is going back to 2004 , I think ( this was before there was even a UK version available, so I had my sub through Com) , for the past few years I've had my Ancestry sub through ancestry Uk. I've been a subscriber for years (hate to add up the cost- yikes)
Way before Findmypast was in existence, I used to get relevant data from the Familyhistory site (a large umbrella site which the family history societies around the country put their census and parish records online - cost to view them were a mere pennies , for example 2p , 4p a record - Findmypast then took the family history records with the societies permission, and the site folded.
Basically,Are you saying that I as a subscriber to FindMyPast DOT UK had and have a different version to people who have ISP's in the UK (who have the same sub to dot UK)?
Are you saying they were giving a different version to people who have a sub with uk, but who do not have a British ISP? (if so, could you post a link to the info please)
If it is the case, I can't say that I ever noticed and have used my dot UK subs to FindMyPast both here and in the UK. I've never been a subscriber to an outside of a UK sub ( except in the very early days of Ancestry when there was only a Com and no UK).
If you are saying overseas versions of FindmyPast such as dot AU etc, Overseas we do have a choice and it's not the only version we can subscribe to. Overseas people can and many, many do, like myself have their subs through both ancestry and findmypast
dot UK and not our country's version.
Or are you saying us overseas had a superior version , and it is the only version we had. If so, not really, plenty here subscribe to UK-I assume it's the same in the UK, unless they stop you in the uk subscribing to anything which doesn't have dot UK in it , you can subscribe to dot Au if you want to.
confused
Kind regards
Ps If you don't want to subscribe to any of the
big boys, and if you're not in the Uk to search the RO's, you could always buy all the relevant county discs for your pre 1911 censuses, and parish record discs. you could use the catalogues online to order various records by snail mail, and join each family history society in your area of interest.it was what I used to do for some of the basic records, before these sites were about . In total they cost far more than some of these subs, and a far longer way to search. There are plenty of choices.
