Free Ancestry Weekend

[carol80]

Use the link  herworth put up. Do not log in. It will ask if you want the .au site or continue with .uk. Click continue with .uk. Go into Free access to UK and Ireland. After you have put a name in and you get results you will then have to log in but it stays with the UK site.

               Carol

[taonga1]

Had to switch to a different browser that I've not used Ancestry on before!  I'm in, but it's not behaving nicely.  Giving me limited results, but keeps taking me to subscription pages. 

[KGarrad]

Not all records are free
Not all UK records are free.

The included data collections are listed after the Search Box on this page:
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/group/uk_irish_records?o_iid=81170&o_lid=81170&o_sch=Internal+List

[hurworth]

Not all records are free
Not all UK records are free.

The included data collections are listed after the Search Box on this page:
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/group/uk_irish_records?o_iid=81170&o_lid=81170&o_sch=Internal+List

I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth, but the list includes Wiltshire baptisms, marriage and burials.  However the images for baptisms I would like to check out are not coming up.  I'm being redirected to a page that asks me to subscribe. 

[groom]

I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth, but the list includes Wiltshire baptisms, marriage and burials.  However the images for baptisms I would like to check out are not coming up.  I'm being redirected to a page that asks me to subscribe.

Isn't that probably the idea of the free access? They dangle a carrot so that you know what records they have, but if you want to see the actual images you have to subscribe. As a long time subscriber, I fully agree with that, otherwise what is the point of subscribing at all?

[hurworth]

I don't intend to ever be a "long-term" Ancestry subscriber.  I prefer the way Findmypast does it whereby you have perpetual access to records you have viewed during the period you had a ssubscription. 

I'm getting to lean pickings with the  nicely bushed-out tree so a sub at Ancestry currently isn't worth it.  I've had subs in the past. 

[jonwarrn]

I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth, but the list includes Wiltshire baptisms, marriage and burials.  However the images for baptisms I would like to check out are not coming up.  I'm being redirected to a page that asks me to subscribe.

It could be that the most recent additions on the site, including Wiltshire parish registers (added only a few months ago) are not being made available this time. You may have to wait for the next free weekend (if there is one!)

Yes, if you attempt to use a different ancestry to the one for where you are located, i.e. ancestry.co.uk when you are in Australia or New Zealand, or vice versa, they will offer to "redirect" you. As Carol said, you need to click on  "continue to", or you will be stuck.

Had to switch to a different browser that I've not used Ancestry on before!  I'm in, but it's not behaving nicely.   

I had the same problem once when I wanted to access the Canada site from UK. Kept being sent back. From memory, the solution was to clear cookies for ancestry.ca
Then start over again!
John

[Ray T]

I'm having no difficulty at all accessing the, albeit slow, UK records. Perhaps it's because I've paid for the privilege!

[hurworth]

The Witshire images are coming up now, but I'm using the FindMyPast transcripts to find (and correct) them as there's some doozy transcription errors.