Free 30 Day Trial - Ancestry.co.uk

MrsM_4

I've recently received a promotional newsletter from 1837 after having bought units, mine are now exhaused and in the letter it offers..

*****To receive an extra 20% units for 1837online.com just enter the following promotional code on the payments page when you purchase any price plan.

Promotional code: 1891NEWS

Don't forget, units can be used on any of our growing list of datasets.

Offer closes at midnight on Sunday 2 April 2006.
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sorry, they're not on offer for longer but worth an extra few credits for you if you want to take it up.

I found the words, graves or baptisms were also useful when googling for information.

Up the genealogists! Addictive is an understatement - I need therapy!

mm :rotfl:

TOPSAVER_5

Thanks Stumpy, that is what i was doing wrong, haven't found any results though yet to my search, think I need a bit more info first.

Indispensable_Hobbes

https://www.rootschat/forum is really useful cos everyone with ancestry access does the searching for you

Now THATS a freebee!

I'm doing my tree also, in familytreemaker and genesreunited, you can down load and up load the files from both so you never have to copy it out twice, update one and then crossreference

jenza8

I can't get the roots chat forum to work. Any advice?

irisrose

Hi, To get to roots chat forum try this link https://www.rootschat.com good luck.

ellanvannin_2

I've tried freebies on the Ancestry site before and got in such a state trying to look everyone up in a short time (no sleep!!). This time I thought I'd give the UK membership a try for a year (about £70) and was pleasantly surprised at how much extra they have available to search since I last tried them 12 months ago.

It's true that a lot of BMD info can be found for free on the Internet, but what they are now excelling in is the census information. Actual scans of handwritten pages, searchable by name or you can browse an area or village page by page. They have 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901 available (not sure if complete coverage on all yet though - I couldn't see the Isle of Man on one of them, can't remember which now).

Well worth the money, plus I can get some much needed sleep in betwee searching. I'm so impressed I'll probably even rejoin next year. I've found the whereabouts of complete families in my Family Tree through the whole range of censuses.

Stumpy

TOPSAVER wrote:

Thanks Stumpy, that is what i was doing wrong, haven't found any results though yet to my search, think I need a bit more info first.

I'm happy to have a quick look on Ancestry to help get you started if you send me some details?

Stumpy

easti - I've sent a reply to your PM - can you let me know if it was any help? Thanks.

imtight

ZIZI wrote:

Official Insert:

What's the offer?

The offer is for 30 days free membership of http://ancestry.co.uk/ by calling 0800 731 6679. While there is a free trial on the website, that lasts just 14 days. As ancestry.co.uk is a US-based site your details will be held on servers outside the UK. As the person who originally posted this has mentioned you need to give your credit card details.

How do I cancel?

Do make sure if you don't want to continue your subscription you cancel before the end of the trial by calling 0800 404 9723 or emailing cancel@ancestry.co.uk and giving the following details:

Given name and surname
Username
Subscription type (UK/Ireland collection, etc.)
E-mail address used when subscribing
Phone number including country code
Country

If you don't your subscription will start and you won't be entitled to a refund so leave plenty of time in which to do it.

Back to the original post....

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Please note it says in small print "The free subscription requires registration with a valid credit card though no money will be taken during the free trial. To cancel, simply call or email Ancestry.co.uk"

I joined the 14 day free trial with Ancestry.co.uk. I found it pretty useless. When I telephoned to cancel, I was kept on the line for ages while they quizzed me about why I wanted to cancel and tried to persuade me to join properly which is very expensive.

irisrose

I cancelled my free trial without any problem it is a free phone number that you call and I spoke to a really nice American woman.
Since then I received an e-mail offering me 10% off will wait and see if they make any more offers to me before I decide to pay for a years subscription.