Beware - if you take up the FMP free offer, they want your credit card details before you can use it. Mine they seem to have harvested from another site, without any authorisation on my part. What is more, their search engine is clumsy and -despite their various claims in magazines to have this that or the other resources, I tested this and found that they didn't seem to have entries from certain claimed sources at all. So OK, maybe this mean 'my' entries sinmply are not included in their source? But no - I cross checked this carefully, using entries I know are there, having collected them years ago from the registers concerned. If they only have a percentage of entries, they should admit this. If you request the category 'births, marriages and deaths from parish records', you actually get BMD from civil registration. There is no facility for filtering by 'name of father', 'name of parents' that is visible. They require a close date and place before they start your search. However, a request for entries from 'St George's Hanover Square' which they claim, (even after I got rid of American entries) threw up entries from Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Hampshire, bermondsey etc - and not the ones from SGHS I knew were there either. I'll stik with Ancestry, on this showing, which produces answers even when they don't specifically claim certain places. And if FMP dare try to use my credit card details, I shall be very much annoyed. EVE Author of The McLaughlin Guides for Family Historians Secretary, Bucks Genealogical Society

On 08/03/2015 12:42, eve via wrote: > Beware - if you take up the FMP free offer, they want your credit card details > before you can use it. Mine they seem to have harvested from another site, > without any authorisation on my part. What is more, their search engine is > clumsy and -despite their various claims in magazines to have this that or > the other resources, I tested this and found that they didn't seem to have > entries from certain claimed sources at all. It is standard practice to take card details with any offer. It's unlikely they've "harvested" your card details as few (including FMP) now keep details on their site. If you are sure they have done as you say, contact them and insist they remove you information and contact your bank to tell them there may be an unauthorised charge to your account. I'd also suggest you contact your lawyer and the police. There have been a great many complaints about FMP ever since they updated their site about how impossible it was to navigate it. *Crossposting removed* -- List Admin, Middx