Thought you guys would appreciate knowing of this, effective tomorrow. ----- Original Message ----- From: <support@nationalarchivist.com> To: <wightway@tiscali.co.uk> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 1:21 AM Subject: National Archivist Special Announcement Important Message from National Archivist - Transfer of Account Further to our announcement last week, the National Archivist is no longer taking new registrations or purchases for credits. If you already have valid credits with us, you may continue to use these as normal on our website up until Thursday 20 th April. On Thursday 20 April 2006 the National Archivist website will be closing down and your account will be transferred to 1837online.com along with any units you have remaining. From this date you will be able to search the archives on the 1837online.com website. What will happen to my account? 1837online.com will create a new account for you automatically using the email address with which you registered on National Archivist as your user name and contact email. You will then be emailed with details of how to activate your account. Tip: It is worth setting your email account to allow emails from the 1837online.com domain to ensure you receive the email giving you details of the changes. If you have not received an email by 25 April 2006, you should contact 1837online.com's customer helpdesk on 0870 7771837 or email them on info@1837online.com. Customers with live credits on National Archivist on 20 April will have their credits converted to 1837online units at a rate of two units per credit. Every registered customer will also receive details of a very special introductory offer to 1837online.com. If you are already registered with 1837online.com using the same email address as registered on National Archivist, your live units will simply be transferred to your existing account. We thank you for working with us to ensure that the transfer of accounts is as smooth as possible and look forward to welcoming you to continued successful searching of our archives in their new home. _____ Previous Announcement We are delighted to announce that 1837online.com has acquired the archives currently live on our website www.nationalarchivist.com <http://www.nationalarchivist.com/> . We believe this is great news for all family historians and genealogists who can only benefit from the merger of these marvellous archives. This brilliant 'one stop' genealogy resource will be available in a few Janet Janet