Ancestry.co.uk FREE

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I think this was posted last year, but the access numbers are different this time, so I am posting again.
There has been a whole page advert in the Guardian weekend magazine section for the last few weeks for a 30 day free access to Ancestry.co.uk, with a free pdf copy of 'Life in victorian Britain' by Tony Robinson.
Text from the advert:
1. Call 0800 032 4684 (lines open 9am-9.30pm mon to sat and 9am-6pm sunday.
2. Note down your access code and login details
3. Go to ancestry.co.uk and start your journey of discovery
Free trial requires registration with a valid credit card but no money wil be taken during the free trial. To cancel, simply call or email Ancestry.co.uk Otherwise an annual membership of £69.95 (!!!!) will be taken automatically after 30 days.
You'll have free addess to:
I suggest anyone setting it up uses the MSE reminder/tart email service to remind them to cancel as the annual membership is very steep!
There has been a whole page advert in the Guardian weekend magazine section for the last few weeks for a 30 day free access to Ancestry.co.uk, with a free pdf copy of 'Life in victorian Britain' by Tony Robinson.
Text from the advert:
1. Call 0800 032 4684 (lines open 9am-9.30pm mon to sat and 9am-6pm sunday.
2. Note down your access code and login details
3. Go to ancestry.co.uk and start your journey of discovery
Free trial requires registration with a valid credit card but no money wil be taken during the free trial. To cancel, simply call or email Ancestry.co.uk Otherwise an annual membership of £69.95 (!!!!) will be taken automatically after 30 days.
You'll have free addess to:
- The largest collection of UK family records on the web
- The only site to offer the complete set of UK cesuses from 1841 to 1901
- Over 500 million names dating back to the 1500s
I suggest anyone setting it up uses the MSE reminder/tart email service to remind them to cancel as the annual membership is very steep!
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I subscribe on a yearly basis to Ancestry.co.uk. At just over £5 for a month with unlimited searches it's a must-have for me. I recommend it.
Check out FreeBMD as well http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ will link you to FreeCen and FreeReg
you have to register its free and then by typing name and surname you can find out if the record is there and if he/she is married or not . Sometimes it comes usefull.
http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/rectype/vital/freebmd/bmd.aspx
Index ranges & Images 1837-1983
Partial FreeBMD Indexes & Images 1837-1983
Complete BMD Indexes 1984-2005
click whatever you are interested in
This is another site for births, deaths and marriages, completely free:
http://www.freebmd.org.uk/
sorry, should have put, this site goes up to abt 1919, though they are adding to it, so really for ancester hunting, not anything more recent!
http://extranet3.kent.gov.uk/sp/rois/home.html
If you are looking at pre 1900 births and marriages then you can always try the IGI on https://www.familysearch.org which is free to look at.