One of the things about this that bothers me is that while this new system is great for a person in Tara's position, someone who has spend years researching and has a ready list of records to check and has the experience to follow up on the results fairly quickly, it's a different story for someone starting out who may early on only have a few records to search for and than discover clues after the sub has run out and need to spend another €25 to find a few more records.
How apart from the price can a person know how long a sub they will need!
The pricing system before the last one I still think was the best, yes it could work out expensive if you weren't careful, but you could work at your own pace. I'd have to check but I think I only bought 5 or less records, it would have been less if I'd know at the time FamilySearch existed.
Unless they find a hidden trove of pre famine records in bog somewhere they are unlikely to have a 1000 records of anyone's ancestors. They don't have any for my father's side of my family.
And after all that you only get a transcript and to think you can get an image of an original BMD Cert for €4, or if your lucky enough to come from the right area you can get original church images for nothing.
I don't have any objection to paying for a service but yet another change to the payment system just smacks of greed to me.
