Surprisingly, I just saved $100.00 on my annual Ancestry.com subscription by FORGETTING to tell Ancestry that my debit card number had recently changed. Because Ancestry was unable to automatically withdraw $299.40 from my bank account, they canceled my account. But when I then called them to straighten this out, they told me that wayward subscribers were temporarily able to sign up again at a $100.00 discount. No problem, I said. Ancestry.com (1-800-262-3787, weekdays, 8 am to 6 pm CDT) told me today that these discounts could well last to the end of April- but might also be withdrawn with the next few days, i.e., VERY SOON. I have very limited need for Ancestry's more expensive International Records, which seem to be mostly too recent to help me much-- with their apparent focus mostly the British Isles & Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. I have much more interest in USA and Canada genealogy. But unfortunately the Canada databases are in the International category-- which explains why I recently switched from the "US Deluxe" plan to the "World Deluxe" plan. And the latter plan includes ALL of Ancestry's bells & whistles. So only the World plan includes "unlimited access to everything on Ancestry.com." And right now (as paid annually upfront) that $299.40 plan costs $199.00, while the $155.40 US plan now costs $99.00 (compare http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/signup.aspx) I have no financial interest whatsoever in Ancestry.com. But it seems to me that it does provide very substantial value to even the occasional researcher-- as long as he or she has an interest especially in North American genealogy-- and (to a lesser extent) European genealogy ...........John (in metro Chicago) ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

I don't know much, if anything, about this, but I have a friend who subscribed to Ancestry Canada for $9.99 a week. He said that is because they (Ancestry.com) are going to discontinue much of their service, worldwide. (???) ----- Original Message ----- From: JQMagie@aol.com<mailto:JQMagie@aol.com> To: njunion@rootsweb.com<mailto:njunion@rootsweb.com> ; njessex@rootsweb.com<mailto:njessex@rootsweb.com> ; wimilwau@rootsweb.com<mailto:wimilwau@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 11:33 AM Subject: [NJESSEX] Ancestry subscriptions- big current discounts Surprisingly, I just saved $100.00 on my annual Ancestry.com subscription by FORGETTING to tell Ancestry that my debit card number had recently changed. Because Ancestry was unable to automatically withdraw $299.40 from my bank account, they canceled my account. But when I then called them to straighten this out, they told me that wayward subscribers were temporarily able to sign up again at a $100.00 discount. No problem, I said. Ancestry.com (1-800-262-3787, weekdays, 8 am to 6 pm CDT) told me today that these discounts could well last to the end of April- but might also be withdrawn with the next few days, i.e., VERY SOON. I have very limited need for Ancestry's more expensive International Records, which seem to be mostly too recent to help me much-- with their apparent focus mostly the British Isles & Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. I have much more interest in USA and Canada genealogy. But unfortunately the Canada databases are in the International category-- which explains why I recently switched from the "US Deluxe" plan to the "World Deluxe" plan. And the latter plan includes ALL of Ancestry's bells & whistles. So only the World plan includes "unlimited access to everything on Ancestry.com." And right now (as paid annually upfront) that $299.40 plan costs $199.00, while the $155.40 US plan now costs $99.00 (compare http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/signup.aspx<http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/signup.aspx>) I have no financial interest whatsoever in Ancestry.com. But it seems to me that it does provide very substantial value to even the occasional researcher-- as long as he or she has an interest especially in North American genealogy-- and (to a lesser extent) European genealogy ..........John (in metro Chicago) ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com<http://www.aol.com/>. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NJESSEX-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:NJESSEX-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I think you may be referring to discontinueing "free" access at Family History Libraries. http://genealogy.about.com/?once=true& I also have the US Deluxe and at this time has no need for the World Deluxe. Though I would like to have access to Canada's records. I have subscribed for many years and saw the most drastic subscription reduction this fall. I used to subscribe to the individual packages that are all now included in the US Deluxe. I would guess my yearly subscription also dropped at least $100/year. I was not happy with having to go to automatic billing. I liked it when the sales person called once a year to try to convince me to add different subscriptions. They were very pleasant people and very helpful. I was told that they laid off the majority of these sales people, went to the auto billing, and were able to drop their rates considerably. I can't imagine them quitting service. I have had to go back and re-research many of my family names because they have added such a tremendous amount of new information. Mary Marjorie Brubeck <mahb5603@msn.com> wrote: I don't know much, if anything, about this, but I have a friend who subscribed to Ancestry Canada for $9.99 a week. He said that is because they (Ancestry.com) are going to discontinue much of their service, worldwide. (???) ----- Original Message ----- From: JQMagie@aol.com To: njunion@rootsweb.com ; njessex@rootsweb.com ; wimilwau@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 11:33 AM Subject: [NJESSEX] Ancestry subscriptions- big current discounts Surprisingly, I just saved $100.00 on my annual Ancestry.com subscription by FORGETTING to tell Ancestry that my debit card number had recently changed. Because Ancestry was unable to automatically withdraw $299.40 from my bank account, they canceled my account. But when I then called them to straighten this out, they told me that wayward subscribers were temporarily able to sign up again at a $100.00 discount. No problem, I said. Ancestry.com (1-800-262-3787, weekdays, 8 am to 6 pm CDT) told me today that these discounts could well last to the end of April- but might also be withdrawn with the next few days, i.e., VERY SOON. I have very limited need for Ancestry's more expensive International Records, which seem to be mostly too recent to help me much-- with their apparent focus mostly the British Isles & Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. I have much more interest in USA and Canada genealogy. But unfortunately the Canada databases are in the International category-- which explains why I recently switched from the "US Deluxe" plan to the "World Deluxe" plan. And the latter plan includes ALL of Ancestry's bells & whistles. So only the World plan includes "unlimited access to everything on Ancestry.com." And right now (as paid annually upfront) that $299.40 plan costs $199.00, while the $155.40 US plan now costs $99.00 (compare http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/signup.aspx) I have no financial interest whatsoever in Ancestry.com. But it seems to me that it does provide very substantial value to even the occasional researcher-- as long as he or she has an interest especially in North American genealogy-- and (to a lesser extent) European genealogy ..........John (in metro Chicago) ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NJESSEX-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NJESSEX-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message http://communities.msn.com/genealogy2000 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/genealogy2002/ --------------------------------- Looking for earth-friendly autos? Browse Top Cars by "Green Rating" at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center.