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  • 09-03-2013 8:51am
    #1
    montgo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 565 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    Yesterday, I thought that I had been given the credits by mistake but no today's email shows "For a limited period you can avail of 100 free search page results on www.rootsireland.ie"


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  • #2
    pedroeibar1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,108 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    Do not get your hopes up!

    Have you tried to use them? I was sent the same message and when I tried to 'view' a record I got You do not have sufficient credit to view any more records. Please purchase more credit. The suggestion was to buy €45 worth.

    What they seem to be doing is allowing you to search births, marriages, deaths, Griffiths , Census and shipping lists and to narrow down the parameters with the 'free' units but to view a record you have to pay. All the same information* is available FREE elsewhere so it really is no improvement on the much more easily navigated familysearch , census, etc, sites. Nor is it as good, as I could not find the individual I input from GRO data.
    Do not bother with these people; you will grow so frustrated that it could/will spoil your day!

    *they do provide a small number of gravestone inscriptions for a few Counties, but the chances of locating a relative there are minute.


  • #3
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,592 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    They are just search credits, they've split the credit system in to search credits (which they seem to give out like smarties - I've hundreds from buying just a few records) and record credits. Different from other sites like ScotlandsPeople that use the same credits for both.

    They have parish records that aren't available free online elsewhere although they are in the NLI, but my god they charge through the nose for them. Quite a lot of them are on FamilySearch but I got a decent amount of Killucan ones from it.


  • #4
    montgo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 565 ✭✭✭montgo


    I must admit despite the overwhelming negative comments, I have continued to use the site for B&M records before 1864 and to narrow searches by inputting known details ie mother's first name/family name. You can even input the mother's name for a particular parish and it will bring up all baptism records. Certainly helps if you have a rarer surname. If I can then find the relevant civil record, I will order the cert from GRO in preference. Obviously, if I could spend a week (or more) at the NLI in Dublin, I would be able to research most of my ancestors from circa 1810 up until 1880.

    An advantage of the church record, is that dispensations are recorded. I believe that a granddaughter of my gggrandfather (b <1810) married a grandson of my gggranduncle (b<1810). The only way I can hope to prove that they were brothers is to try to view the church marriage record (1921):(.


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