Genealogy Chat

In early December I bought a copy of FTM 2010 Platinum from Amazon UK for £29.99 (half RRP) and it comes with a free 6 months subscription to Ancestry. OK, it's the basic subscription, but still very cheap and in 6 months I can do a lot of searching through the data I'm permitted to access (trees plus UK census and some other stuff). Fortunately for me I'm not really interested in much foreign data, but the UK Parish records would have been nice..

I have managed (not sure how though) to get four 14 day free trials from ancestry. I have never paid for one so far.
I get together a list of who I am looking for before signing up and that way I am not wasting my time. I think I got most Of my info from there for free, but have made contact with relations through GR and swapped other family info and photo's. We are in contact with 2 of my husbands 2nd cousins and hope to meet up soon.
I think I put different email address and gave different payment details each time and it works every time.

nudge

You have until 5 am UK time.

Rose

Blow, that offer ended today and I wanted to send it to my cousin :(

DET,

Forgot to mention that you don't need to be in Canada to take advantage of this offer. The Worldwide sub works for any country including the UK. Join on on the Canadian site for the good rate and then login to Ancestry.co.uk afterwards.



I just renewed on the Canadian site and I'm not in Canada.

I was charged 149 Canadian Dollars and then I logged back in to Ancestry.co.uk to get the UK centric search results.

Rose

That link takes you to the Canadian site, Rose.

It would be interesting to see if anyone from other countries can get accepted!

Update:

See this:

http://www.ancestry.ca/lp_globe?o_xid=36942&o_lid=36942&lcid=4105

Rose

Ken.
I think it does depend on who you talk to. at Ancestry.Why not go with the suggestions and use quidco instead

Thank you Heather, yes I have read all reply’s but on ringing Ancestry they still only offered 10%, I told them of the 20% that had been offered to others but was still only offered 10, I will try again next week and hopefully get some one else other than “David” to talk to.

Hi Heather,
I wondered if it would only be new customers who got the 25% off too, so I sent a query to quidco and got this reply...........

Adele wrote 26 Jun 09 at 16:40
Hi Cathy,

I have now had clarification from the merchant and I can confirm that Ancestry pays cashback for both new and existing customers.

I hope this clarifies matters and I will now close this ticket but if you wish to contact us regarding another matter then please raise another Help ticket.

Kind regards,

Adele
Quidco Member Support

Ken, have you not read the other replies?

Thank you Cathy, I think I will try and wait just a bit longer before I decide to use “Quidco” and see if Ancestry offers me anything better. It’s very hard to have to keep waiting though I can’t seem to be able to get on with anything, we don’t realize how good something is until we don’t have it any longer.

“Now where have I heard that before?”

Quidco is very genuine :) Ive had nearly a thousand quid in cash back from them in the last 3 years. HOWEVER, you are supposed to be a first time subber to ancestry to get the 25% cashback. You can overcome that by using a different email addy apparently.

Ive just got my 20% off after doing without for 6 weeks. I got the premium for £85 I think. I also spent tesco vouchers on a ftm program for £15 vouchers, which gave me another 6 months access for zilcho.

I got the following email from ancestry - there is no code or anything, so Im guessing anyone who has let their membership lapse a few weeks could ring and get 20% discount:

We've even extended our offer of a 20% discount* if you re-open your files by giving us a call soon. So you've still got time to enjoy another year of membership for less!. Just call 0800 345 7928 and our friendly staff will have you back on the trail of your

family history, before it goes totally cold.

They were running a half price special back in June so I think I will cancel and see what they can offer. Here are the prices from then:

essentials £41.70/year*
Normally £83.40

premium £53.70/year*
Normally £107.40

worldwide £77.70/year*
Normally £155.40

Rose

Many GR members have mentioned using Quidco to get Ancestry

Ken,
I got the 25% discount off my renewal from quidco and it is genuine. You can get all sorts of discounts with them and every so often they put the money in your account.
I think you'll find they are genuine. I first heard of them through Martin Lewis's website moneysavingexpert.com newsletter and you get some really good tips from them!

Cathy

Thanks everyone,

I'm certain it's a genuine email. I think I first joined in 2006 and the renewal has always come through at the same rate.

I do have some ancestors born overseas and I like having Worldwide access to help others on here.

I have thought about cancelling to see what they can offer. I will try and contact them and see what they say.

Rose

Mine run out last week and have not yet herd a word from Ancestry, I rang them and asked about the 25% that can be got at Quidco and if they would offer that over the phone to me but was told “No” but he could offer me 10% over the phone.

Quidco looks a bit suspect to me, so not really sure what to do.

I hope you're right, Sue. Mine expired last week and I'm waiting for the 20% off offer. However I'm going through withdrawal symptoms, don't know if I'll make it.