Accessing Ancestry

[tamarjay]

Keep getting the "Check Back Soon" message 

[MaryA]

They have only yesterday uploaded all of the births and marriages, transcribed since 1916 which would appear to be a huge bonus for us.  This appear to have been the reason for the hold ups then, I wonder if there are to be more goodies today which they are attempting to provide to us.

It might be a good idea if we had a little patience and see.

[tamarjay]

Completely agree MaryA, we must be patient.

But its very hard, when we know what exciting goodies await us......

Hopefully it will all be back up and running soon - then we will probably all crash it again as we stampede onto the site! 

[Isobelruss]

The goodies arent much good if we cant access them. Not easy to be patient when you only have limited time to search and its not the BMDs you want

[MaryA]

The goodies arent much good if we cant access them. Not easy to be patient when you only have limited time to search and its not the BMDs you want

We won't be able to access them at all unless they are uploaded. 

We don't know that it's ONLY the BMD's that they are uploading, recently there have been quite a number of other databases also, eg the the Incoming Passenger Lists.

I do feel that as they are giving us more for our dosh, at least until they rethink the pricing policy, we could give them a few hours to get it up there.

[Nick29]

They have only yesterday uploaded all of the births and marriages, transcribed since 1916 which would appear to be a huge bonus for us.  This appear to have been the reason for the hold ups then, I wonder if there are to be more goodies today which they are attempting to provide to us.

It might be a good idea if we had a little patience and see.

Oh yes, but I think the parish records from the London Metropolitan Archives would be too much to hope for !  

I'm waiting with baited breath for those !  

[Alan b]

Oh yes, but I think the parish records from the London Metropolitan Archives would be too much to hope for !  

I'm waiting with baited breath for those !  

You and me to, I don't suppose anyone knows the time scale as to when these will get uploaded, I saw the email reply in another thread stating that they would be coming soon, but how soon is soon ?

Oh and does anyone think we need a Ancestry board on here these days for all these "I am having problems questions" and the like ?

[i_am_stewart]

My first thought was this is going live!?!? 

http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/LGNL_Services/Leisure_and_culture/Records_and_archives/Ancestry+digitisation.htm

Fingers crossed.

[Nick29]

Well, they say "Early 2009", which could be now, or could equally be May 

Let's hope they're launching it now to compete with FindMyPast and the 1911 census