I agree wholeheartedly Graham. I paid for a year subscription, only get the bmd indexes (have to pay for census) and cannot for the life of me figure out why they cannot just give me a list of pages for that particular name like free bmd. It appears that what I am paying for now I can get free on bmd anyways. I am still not sure what I paid for but that is my own fault not theirs. Very confusing system in my opinion. Jackie (Canada) Graham Price wrote: > Hi all > I am sure that 1837online.com is probably on the level, but I wish > they wouldn't do things like this. It engenders in my mind the old > fears of buying from some second-hand used car salesmen! You can > search for free on their website for a surname within a certain period > of time - usually within a 10 year search - or an individual name, if > you wish (which appears to be the St. Catherine's Index). They > generally come up with a list that possibly gives your surname, but > may not. i.e. I put in searching for Peate (mind you the extra e on > the end!) births 1947-1957 and got results which read: Jul-Aug-Sep > 1947 PEAT, Janet - PEEL, Daphne G, which means 1947 PEAT alphabetical > right up to PEEL, and Jan-Feb-Mar 1950 PEAT, Melinda - PEEL, Sandra M, > etc., but which absolutely gives no guarantee that you will find what > you are looking for. Of course, then comes up the next image VIEW, > which means you go to the next page and VIEW and then have to PAY FOR > viewing something that you are blindfolded against! Walking in the > dark. And my goodness, no genealogist that I know ever wants to walk > in the dark! I am not overly knocking this website for it probably > works well for many genealogists, but I just need to understand what > this all about - why charge people for something they may not find? > That is the acute question. Now, National Archives will give their > records over to 1837online.com as of April 20th, so are we going to > find the same sort of troubles with the new records? Just wondering. > Perhaps the simple answer is that 1837online.com needs to update their > software to accommodate this problem so that if I put in Andrew Peate > born 1947 and it comes up on the page, making me very excited, THEN I > will put my money where my mouth is and pay for it. Seems a sensible > solution, does it not? Just can't understand why they cannot see it! > PS. I have also tried this with individual names and exact dates of > birth with no joy. > Cheers > Graham > Melbourne > Oz > > > ==== ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS Mailing List ==== > DO NOT send 'Unsubscribe' requests to the list. Send a new e-mail with > just the word - unsubscribe - in the message body to ~ > ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS-L-request@rootsweb.com ~ Substitute -D- for -L- if > in 'Digest' mode. > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >