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The link is -

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/cat ... +Campaigns

Thanks Gloria!

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After a twenty year gap I'm working up my family lines on Ancestry. Converting the scribbled paper.
It's a lot easier with computers than microfilm records but I'm glad I got the oral history while it was available.
Central Yorkshire and Derbyshire on my dad's side and Kent on my mother's.

It's addictive Bill......

Very addictive.
I also shelled out for the DNA spit test which put the 84 third cousin matches in a close spread to where I think my ancestors came from.
A couple have emailed and one has spotted an error in one of my lines which has saved me a lot of grief and opened up new directions of research.

What's the consensus now on the accuracy of the DNA test? It was regarded with great scepticism at one time by the experts in the field.....

Ancestry Military Records free until Monday.

When I was researching my family both the UK and Australian records were free access. Different sites?

Ancestry offer 4 months for £20.

Ancestry free 6th-9th 2018 July UK and Irish collections




*Access to the records in the featured collections will start on 6 July and be free until 9 July 2018 at 23:59 BST. After the free access period ends, you will only be able to view the records in the featured collections using an Ancestry.co.uk paid membership. To see a full list of the records in the featured collections click on the link below-
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Ancestry isn’t just about folk who lived long ago. Your own close relatives are as much a part of history as the Domesday Book.

Because in the 1939 Register, you can discover your parents or grandparents on the eve of World War II - and use what you find to start building your family tree.

And with 4 days’ free access to ALL our UK and Irish records starting this Friday, now is the time to build a bridge from living memory to the deeper past.

Not sure where to start? AncestryProGenealogists® Debra and Simon will be answering questions from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. this Friday over on the UK Ancestry Facebook page.

Just bumping this up for anyone thinking of looking into their family tree.
If you need help with it, ask on here, there are people who can help

Ancestry have just advised us that the free access given will now apply until 23.59hours 10th July 2018 so make the most of it while you can.

Ancestry free this weekend.

Thanks for the tip Gloria - I'll dive in.

Is it free in the sense that you don't have to register, don't need to give any personal information - or the usual cunning wheeze of making you sign up and give credit card details then get charged if you over-stay the free period?

Personal data has significant financial value now, so when they say free but want your data, it isn't really free.

Ancestry free access until Monday.

This won't encourage the hobby. Certificate price increase

"The price of a death certificate ordered online from the General Register Office will go up from the current rate of £9.25 to the same higher cost of £11."

I haven't bought one for a few years, and can't recall how much I paid then, but that price sound a bit off putting. I was surprised a couple of years ago when a petition to reduce the price of a simple photo copy of a certificate at a reduced price - as I read they do in Ireland - failed to reach the required number for action.

You can order pdf copies of birth and death certificates for family history research to download from the GRO website for £7.

Tripps wrote: ↑15 Feb 2019, 23:17 This won't encourage the hobby. Certificate price increase

"The price of a death certificate ordered online from the General Register Office will go up from the current rate of £9.25 to the same higher cost of £11."

I haven't bought one for a few years, and can't recall how much I paid then, but that price sound a bit off putting. I was surprised a couple of years ago when a petition to reduce the price of a simple photo copy of a certificate at a reduced price - as I read they do in Ireland - failed to reach the required number for action.

Are not copies from the relevant local register office cheaper if requested in person ( we needed some when wherever mother-in-law put them we could not find so obtained when processing her death ramifications)

Gloria wrote: ↑15 Feb 2019, 18:27 Ancestry free access until Monday.

Is always free when I should be doing something else- like working and local political agitation and living family visitations.

My problem is that I am probably researching four or five family back branches = and most now go into parish records which are confusing - as well as using census stuff for local history development of housing and commerce in three adjoining parish/EDs