You may be right Alexander, but Scotland's People is still way more expensive than it needs to be. They seem to be praying on those overseas who want to explore their Scotish heritage. I found that often the data I was not looking for was not there but was to be found elsewhere. Doug >Message: 2 >Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 19:53:45 +0100 >From: Alexander Bisset <ambisset@btinternet.com> >Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] ScotlandsPeople >To: "aberdeen@rootsweb.com" <aberdeen@rootsweb.com> >Message-ID: <E38FB0FA-4ABA-47AC-AF8F-C332E54AF61A@btinternet.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > >Hi Venita > >Sorry but your maths is seriously flawed or you are getting a REALLY >poor exchange rate. You don't say which of the various type of >dollars you use but even if it's NZ dollars then 30 credits is >$13.63 at today's exchange rate. Now assuming you count 1 credit for >a search and 5 for an image that's still 5 searches and 5 images you >get for less than $15. If you are in US, Canada, Australia then you >get even more for your dollars as the exchange rate is better than I quoted. > >Ie most certainly not "about $15 US to look at one record." It's >more than FIVE TIMES CHEAPER than that. Yes it mounts up and yes >those of us with lots of Scottish records wish there was a >subscription. However please don't post completely false impressions >of the cost. It does the cause of promoting improving the access to >Scottish records no favours if you wildly over estimate the costs. > >Regards >Alexander Bisset

Yet it is still far cheaper than getting certificates with less information when you are lumbered with English ancestors and their bare indexes. This is typically why a very large number of tree with English ancestors have births to the nearest quarter as typically people don't want to pay the extra for a certificate. Especially since an English certificate contains very little data. As I have said four or five times now, I desperately want to see a subscription service as I have purchased just over 1500 images from Scotland's people (1506 to be precise). I would view a whole lot more if it was a subscription service but a credit system still doesn't put me off. I have 1/16 2g grandparents who is English the other 15/16 are from NE Scotland, the English line is far far more about finding them on a census as that is almost the only reliable source of data out there that you can view as images, although thankfully that's slowly changing but it's hit or miss depending on where your ancestors came from. After that you typically have to rely on films or visiting specific research centres or worse information from others. Whereas the depth and variety of Scottish records at Scotland's people with the wealth of info you get on each type of "certificate" means that almost everything can be done online from your own home, and it's only when you want to augment that info do you need to seek out other sources. I'd probably have given up years ago if I had mainly English ancestors and had to suffer the paucity of information that is available. Regards Alexander Bisset Sent from my iPad Air Try my FREE Family Tree Analyzer program at http://FTAnalyzer.codeplex.com to investigate the data hidden in your research. > On 31 Mar 2014, at 23:49, Doug Geddes <wdgeddes@rogers.com> wrote: > > You may be right Alexander, but Scotland's People is still way more > expensive than it needs to be. They seem to be praying on those > overseas who want to explore their Scotish heritage. I found that > often the data I was not looking for was not there but was to be > found elsewhere. > > Doug > > > > > >> Message: 2 >> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 19:53:45 +0100 >> From: Alexander Bisset <ambisset@btinternet.com> >> Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] ScotlandsPeople >> To: "aberdeen@rootsweb.com" <aberdeen@rootsweb.com> >> Message-ID: <E38FB0FA-4ABA-47AC-AF8F-C332E54AF61A@btinternet.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 >> >> Hi Venita >> >> Sorry but your maths is seriously flawed or you are getting a REALLY >> poor exchange rate. You don't say which of the various type of >> dollars you use but even if it's NZ dollars then 30 credits is >> $13.63 at today's exchange rate. Now assuming you count 1 credit for >> a search and 5 for an image that's still 5 searches and 5 images you >> get for less than $15. If you are in US, Canada, Australia then you >> get even more for your dollars as the exchange rate is better than I quoted. >> >> Ie most certainly not "about $15 US to look at one record." It's >> more than FIVE TIMES CHEAPER than that. Yes it mounts up and yes >> those of us with lots of Scottish records wish there was a >> subscription. However please don't post completely false impressions >> of the cost. It does the cause of promoting improving the access to >> Scottish records no favours if you wildly over estimate the costs. >> >> Regards >> Alexander Bisset > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message