Genealogy Chat

Woo hoo!

Two minutes ago, I tried a search, and still got the "Buy credits" message.

I have just tried again - and it is now letting me see free results!

Must have been a fault on the site.

Nope - still saying to buy credits :-S

How strange, Det - You could get free results when I couldn't, and now I can get them and you can't!

Still not free :-(

Did you get round to phoning them or is that for another day?

No, I didn't phone them.

Well, I had dialled the number, which was ringing and ringing, but at the same time I was trying the website again, and discovered that I could get free results again, so I hung up
I assumed at that time that it would be working for everyone.

This is weird. I hadn't used this site before but when I saw this thread on 29th August I had a look at it. I experimented by putting in OH's name and the region. It came up with all the information for free. It did still give our old address but I assumed that was because when we moved three years ago we opted out of the published electoral roll.

Just did exactly the same again and it tells me there is one record for every year from 1980 to 2015 but I have to buy credits to view them :-S

Not sure if this has been mentioned?

If you clear your cookies/cache it will not recognise that you have searched before, well that's how it works on 192 !

That doesn't seem to have an effect, Gins. Normally the site would tell you that you've done so many searches in x minutes and that you can't continue for a further y minutes.

There was never anything to say that you weren't permitted to see results at the street level. What they meant by that was that they'd withheld the house name or number which you had to pay to view.

Unless they have a systems fault, they're probably changing the whole site to pay-to-view/sub. They just haven't got round to removing the promise of viewing edited results!

When I looked at it first time, our house name was included which did surprise me.