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weekdays, 8 am to 6 pm CDT) told me today that these discounts could well last to the end of April- but might also be withdrawn with the next few days, i.e., VERY SOON.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 think their prices are OUTRAGES. ----- 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: [WIMILWAU] 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 > WIMILWAU-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message