Ancestry freebie

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:29 am

Thanks Joette,

Works for me.

Now I've got to get my act together, hopefully that won't take 3 days.

Alan

Billmalc · Post by **Billmalc** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:31 am

Thanks fatjock

That did the trick

Spent the past 2 hours downloading. Better get off to bed now, up again in a few hours

But it's been worth it!!!

Bill

Bervonian · Post by **Bervonian** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:01 am

The Ancestry freebee has expired - sob,sob

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:41 am

Don't give up Bervonian,

I just picked up another 3 days (actually the same 3 days I already have).

I tested it using a different name and email address and it still works.

Let us know what screens and messages you are seeing after you enter the site via fatjock's link.

Alan

Bervonian · Post by **Bervonian** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:47 pm

Yipee

Thank you Alan. I got this:-
"Enjoy 3 days of unlimited access to Ancestry.com
Begin Free Access.
Create a Free Account
First Name ......................
Last Name .......................
Email ...............................
Continue

I've invited friends out to lunch and they arrive in 10 minutes. Darn !

djcrtoye · Post by **djcrtoye** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:54 pm

Hi thanks for the tip. I am now printing of my ggranda's war record. Have found a little gem in it, a great aunt nobody knew about doesn't look like she survived long so need to track her through S.P.. Used fatjocks link took me to ancestry.com.

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 3:02 am

This Freebee is still running. Don't miss out!

Alan

Post by **Tracey** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 7:51 pm

What i did notice is that .com has World Delux membership for 1 month at $29.95 and .co.uk has World Collection at £24.90 and i think they contain the same records. For us in the U.K at todays exchange rate we could save ourselves around £10 - ish by subscribing to .com.

mallog · Post by **mallog** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 10:01 pm

I found out a few things I didn't know this time. Thanks for the link $\:D/$

Russell · Post by **Russell** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 2:11 am

I have just emerged from four days of frantic activity.
I think they measured usage by the hour rather than by the calender day.
It will take weeks to sort out the info downloaded and we have explored family side branches which we would normally leave alone as too costly.

We have found multiple marriages across two generations with families taking on other children and naming patterns which include the names of the first/second wife/husband's family. A real insight into how difficult life must have been at the end of the 1800's and how families just got on with living life.
Life is cushy for us nowadays

Ancestry. com's system for census indexing made it so easy to find the more obscure entries but the system seemed to object to 'wildcard' searches.
I wonder if they will do it again as the system seemed to get slower and slower as more people came home from work and overloaded the search engine.

Any more freebies on offer

Russell