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Hi Ann

My commiserations to you. I was thinking about the 1837online offer but was edging towards not taking it up when the email from ancestry  (which I already subscribe to) came through so I am happy I made the right decision.

I do remember that in the terms and conditions of the 1837online offer there was a 14 day cooling off period in which you could get your £50 back less a deduction for any units used and a minimum admin fee of £5. There is an email address for the cancelation - if you haven't got the details send me a PM. 

Thanks, Ian.
Just found all the necessary to cancel my subscription to 1837Online - I'll only lose £5.

BUT, if they'd included all their databases + those on the National Archivist website that they now own, I would've kept my subscription  on.  Will point this out when I email them to cancel 

   Ann

To quote from an email from Ancestry.co.uk this morning:-

"Dear Ann,

We value you as an Ancestry.co.uk user and we'd like to give you some exciting news. While many web sites are charging money for access to UK birth, marriage and death records, Ancestry.co.uk is the first and only UK website to offer the complete collection of General Register Office (GRO) birth, marriage and death records for FREE.

About the Ancestry.co.uk Birth, Marriage and Death Index:

It includes more than 250 million names from 1837.
It's fully searchable by surname range.
It's the highest-quality index of these records online.
Whether you're new to family history or an expert genealogist, you'll find the information in the Birth, Marriage and Death Index crucial to your research. These records can help you find out about the people in your family story -- for FREE.

Best of luck,
The Ancestry.co.uk Team"

And it's true - they are FREE, but why did this have to happen just after I forked out £50 for a year's subscription to 1837Online   


   Ann


19.1.06-21.27p.m.-Not sure why "Free"  got changed to "nothing" later on in this thread

- At the end of the last page of the entries for the village after the last entry it says: "End of the Parish of Beckingham and of the Enumeration District.  Edm^d Stovin, Enumerator"

I've just realised that I now have 23 pages of my ggg Grandfather's handwriting.  How cool is that?

Anyone else have census enumerators amongst their ancestors?   

On the 1891, both my Gt Grandfather and my Gt Gt Grandfather were the enumerator's for the village of Christchurch, part of the Upwell Registration District in Cambridgeshire.   John CAWTHORN did the main part of the village and his father, George CAWTHORN, did part of the outlying district where he lived and farmed.  I have the whole set of fiche, so won't be getting rid of those in a hurry!

Cheers,  Ann.

I use "Brother's Keeper" so that I can keep tabs on everyone on my computer; BUT I also have many ring binders and folders with print outs, certificates, census info, photos, ets, etc.  BUT most important of all, I save AND print all emails with new information - I've had too many hard disk failures and lost too may important emails in the past.

The dining table is covered in binders and folders, but is in reach of my computer desk should a new contact email me via my website, whatever, so that I can grab the relevant folder.

Trouble comes when I have to clear the table and tidy up - it takes me about a week to sort out everything again!

When you're following many different lines, as I am, organisation can be tricky, especially as the day job gets in the way  I very often have to break off on an interesting line of enquiry about 10 minutes before I leave the house at mid-day to go to work.  

One day, I'll get seriously organised, but I like the chase too much  

Cheers,  Ann.

At the end of October, I made a flying visit to my parents, and whilst there
had a quick look at the Baptist Chapel, but couldn't stay too long as the builders were there.

The chapel is now gutted and an official planning notice is tied to the main
front gates.  AND all the new clean gravel laid over the graves in August has been cleared away into a big, dirty heap.  The whole place looked very unsavoury.

No graves have been disturbed, and the one exhumation that was going to happen - a WW2 Commonwealth War Grave - hasn't by request of the family, and the headstone is being re-instated.

I'm still very angry about it, as the Baptist Minute Books which recorded all the burials are still missing, and I'm pretty sure that 2 sets of my Gt Gt Grandparents are buried there - but will I ever find out, God only knows 

Regards,  Ann.