Find My Past £1 for 1month

[Ruskie]

Thanks for letting us know about the offer.

I will probably take it up - I took up the last couple of £1 offers but didn't end up using the site at all as I don't seem to get along with it and can never find what I am looking for despite them purporting to have various collections of interest to me - I think when you look further they have sometimes have very limited records within that collection and whatever I am looking for is not included.

Never mind - £1 is worth a punt even if I don't end up using it - it's still good value. 

[DavidG02]

Ruskie ( and others)

When looking at the record sets on FindMyPast scroll down to the fine print. eg Some records will openly state - as they do for Suffolk- '' 50 of 500 parishes on record'' so while it is limited , at least there is some openness.

Like most things it takes time to transcribe etc , and anyway as a business model , putting it all there on day 1 would send you broke real quick

[Ruskie]

Ruskie ( and others)

When looking at the record sets on FindMyPast scroll down to the fine print. eg Some records will openly state - as they do for Suffolk- '' 50 of 500 parishes on record'' so while it is limited , at least there is some openness.

Thanks David - I recall some time ago contacting FindMyPast with a question about the number of records they have in certain collections - it was ages ago, so I can't recall the reply (as I seldom use the site) but it was not as easy as your method, so thanks for that.  Still, they do have it in the fine print and not upfront as I believe it should be (for example the way that FamilySearch displays theirs). 

[smudwhisk]

Some of the parish register collections state the parishes included and dates.  Word of caution, they are not entirely accurate.  The Hertfordshire registers being a good example, eg, they claim to have Watford and Rickmansworth to 1900, but both are missing from 1800/1810 to virtually the end of the century.   So what's included is a guide but not necessarily that accurate.

[Mowsehowse]

I am delighted to know there is another offer. Thanks ALL for alerting me to it.

I can fully understand why it would be maddening to find it all went crazy after paying a full sub, but I would not like to complain if I am only paying £1 per month, and I have done rather well out of the offers this year so far.

[AnneMc]

I took advantage of their last pound offer and I am really glad I did.  I found lots of information including the baptism of the daugher of my greatgrandparents .  this daughter had died and I did not know her name as I got that information off the 1911 census.  Plus found lots of newspaper articles.

Did take me awhile to figure out how the site worked but once I got use it I was ok.

Cheers

Anne

[Rosinish]

Some of the parish register collections state the parishes included and dates.  Word of caution, they are not entirely accurate.  The Hertfordshire registers being a good example, eg, they claim to have Watford and Rickmansworth to 1900, but both are missing from 1800/1810 to virtually the end of the century.   So what's included is a guide but not necessarily that accurate.

If only taking up the £1 offer it's fine just to check out what they do hold (any/every where) but it would be so much more beneficial to all, if these sites had an index telling us what exactly they have before we subscribe for 6/12 months.

I telephoned ancestry many yrs ago prior a yrs subscription asking what they hold. The answer was vague.........."(depends what you are looking for)" basically & no £1 offers in those days i.e. could only find out after I transcribed.

I stayed with them for many yrs until I realised that "special offers" were being given to "non subscribers" yet nothing for us who were long term users/subscribers.

Annie

[pinefamily]

Some of the parish register collections state the parishes included and dates.  Word of caution, they are not entirely accurate.  The Hertfordshire registers being a good example, eg, they claim to have Watford and Rickmansworth to 1900, but both are missing from 1800/1810 to virtually the end of the century.   So what's included is a guide but not necessarily that accurate.

Do they have any caveats for the missing years though? I used to get caught out with LDS microfilms, until I started checking the details of each film more carefully. They would give any missing years, even though the film title would give the overall start and finish dates.

[Rosinish]

That would be a "get out of jail card" free...........i.e. how it's worded technically & pretty indecent of them to inform us of the "missing yrs" for what they are advertising "claiming" to have online.

No wonder people get exasperated as that kind of info. is misleading.

Annie