"Tim Powys-Lybbe" <tim@powys.org> wrote in message news:d9c6ebFnfjoU1@mid.individual.net... > On 27/10/2015 4:02 p.m., Anne Sherman wrote: >> Find My Past have just announced that the 1939 register will be available >> on from Monday 2nd November 2015. >> >> Records will be available to purchase for £6.95 per household, or £24.95 >> for a 5 household bundle (£4.99 per household). It seems a bit pricey >> but they did put a lot of work into it. >> >> Findmypast subscribers will be entitled to a discount. > > I was wondering about that discount but did not see anything on the > announcement I received from FMP. > > FindMypast also got the 1911 census contract and set up a company to > market and charge for this. The charges were on a piece basis with > various discounts for quantity. > > I think that 1911-only site is only now being wound up. But very soon FMP > added 1911 census access to their normal subscriptions, as have other > genealogy data providers. > > What I wonder is how long it will be before FMP add the 1939 exercise to > their normal FMP data subscription. As a potential customer of that data, > I am happy not to buy access in a piecemeal fashion and await the merge > into the full subscription. > > Who knows any more? > > -- > Tim Powys-Lybbe tim@powys.org > for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ I don't think there has been, or will be, any statement on that last part yet Tim. I have seen mentions of 10% discount in the UK (whoopee!) and 25% in AU. Chris Paton published a more recent PR from findmypast, at http://britishgenes.blogspot.ie/2015/10/english-and-welsh-1939-national.html, which suggests the registers will be "searchable", but you pay-per-view to "see the records". I'm especially interested in what the search-results will actually contain. It has to be sufficient to ensure you have the right household (in an ideal world) but less than the full details. Tony Proctor

On 28/10/2015 16:49, Tony Proctor wrote: > "Tim Powys-Lybbe"<tim@powys.org> wrote in message > news:d9c6ebFnfjoU1@mid.individual.net... >> On 27/10/2015 4:02 p.m., Anne Sherman wrote: >>> Find My Past have just announced that the 1939 register will be available >>> on from Monday 2nd November 2015. >>> >>> Records will be available to purchase for £6.95 per household, or £24.95 >>> for a 5 household bundle (£4.99 per household). It seems a bit pricey >>> but they did put a lot of work into it. >>> >>> Findmypast subscribers will be entitled to a discount. >> >> I was wondering about that discount but did not see anything on the >> announcement I received from FMP. >> >> FindMypast also got the 1911 census contract and set up a company to >> market and charge for this. The charges were on a piece basis with >> various discounts for quantity. >> >> I think that 1911-only site is only now being wound up. But very soon FMP >> added 1911 census access to their normal subscriptions, as have other >> genealogy data providers. >> >> What I wonder is how long it will be before FMP add the 1939 exercise to >> their normal FMP data subscription. As a potential customer of that data, >> I am happy not to buy access in a piecemeal fashion and await the merge >> into the full subscription. >> >> Who knows any more? >> >> -- >> Tim Powys-Lybbe tim@powys.org >> for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ > > I don't think there has been, or will be, any statement on that last part > yet Tim. I have seen mentions of 10% discount in the UK (whoopee!) and 25% > in AU. Chris Paton published a more recent PR from findmypast, at > http://britishgenes.blogspot.ie/2015/10/english-and-welsh-1939-national.html, > which suggests the registers will be "searchable", but you pay-per-view to > "see the records". I'm especially interested in what the search-results will > actually contain. It has to be sufficient to ensure you have the right > household (in an ideal world) but less than the full details. > > Tony Proctor > > The email which I received from FMP about the 1939 Register said: "As a valued subscriber, we will be sending an exclusive code to you soon which will entitle you to 25% off our 5 household bundle." So, nothing off a single household but 25% off the "bundle". I, too, am keen to know how long it will be before this is included in the UK subscription rather than needing to pay extra. -- Cheers, Roger ____________ Please reply to Newsgroup. Whilst email address is valid, it is seldom checked.

On 2015-10-28 16:49:52 +0000, Tony Proctor said: > "Tim Powys-Lybbe" <tim@powys.org> wrote in message > news:d9c6ebFnfjoU1@mid.individual.net... >> On 27/10/2015 4:02 p.m., Anne Sherman wrote: >>> Find My Past have just announced that the 1939 register will be >>> available on from Monday 2nd November 2015. >>> >>> Records will be available to purchase for £6.95 per household, or >>> £24.95 for a 5 household bundle (£4.99 per household). It seems a bit >>> pricey but they did put a lot of work into it. >>> >>> Findmypast subscribers will be entitled to a discount. >> >> I was wondering about that discount but did not see anything on the >> announcement I received from FMP. >> >> FindMypast also got the 1911 census contract and set up a company to >> market and charge for this. The charges were on a piece basis with >> various discounts for quantity. >> >> I think that 1911-only site is only now being wound up. But very soon >> FMP added 1911 census access to their normal subscriptions, as have >> other genealogy data providers. >> >> What I wonder is how long it will be before FMP add the 1939 exercise >> to their normal FMP data subscription. As a potential customer of that >> data, I am happy not to buy access in a piecemeal fashion and await the >> merge into the full subscription. >> >> Who knows any more? >> >> -- >> Tim Powys-Lybbe tim@powys.org >> for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ > > I don't think there has been, or will be, any statement on that last > part yet Tim. I have seen mentions of 10% discount in the UK (whoopee!) > and 25% in AU. Chris Paton published a more recent PR from findmypast, > at > http://britishgenes.blogspot.ie/2015/10/english-and-welsh-1939-national.html, > which suggests the registers will be "searchable", but you pay-per-view > to "see the records". I'm especially interested in what the > search-results will actually contain. It has to be sufficient to ensure > you have the right household (in an ideal world) but less than the full > details. > > Tony Proctor As for the discount, I now have three emails.The first gave me the release date and said that as a subscriber (Britain only) I would be getting a discount of 25% on a bundle. That has been followed by a mail giving me a personal code, can only be used once, to buy 300 credits, enough for a bundle of 5 households, in advance of the release at a 25% discount. I've now done that and the 300 credits are showing in my subscriptions page and the cost was £18.71 The 3rd mail says I have a personal code to buy 300 credits at a 10% discount. I'll see what results I'll get with my first 300 credits before deciding whether or not to go ahead and attempt to use the second code. Not sure yet but I may well just try for the 5 households and be content with that until such time as the database is included in a sub. I'll be interested to see how out of date the 'redaction' for people who are still alive (? but under 100 years old) is. I have one family where all the members likely to be listed have all since died, but the last one to die was in May this year. I get the feeling her details won't show up. I will also be looking for a friend's Mum - who is a sprightly 104, she'll be tickled pink if her record is on there :-) -- Tickettyboo