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I've never paid any attention to the records accessible via this site, as I was paying a sub at another site before joining here, and have been happy enough with it that I've just continued. And I haven't seen great results from newbies paying pots of money for records access here.

What with it being free this afternoon (my time), I thought I'd give it a shot.

I enquired about my grx2 grf Reuben C from Nottinghamshire, born 1825 +/- 5 years.

I'm quite pleased to see that there is an exact match for him in records here at GR ... in ... wait for it ... World War 2 deaths.

Imagine how pleased I am to find such longevity genes in my tree. Even if he was born 1830 (having his first kids in the mid-late 1840s), and died at the beginning of WWII, that made him nearly 110!

My grx3 grf Benjamin B married in 1881 (oooops -- 1781), so I figured a dob of 1755 +/- 10 years would likely cover him. Although he seems fairly certain to have been born in Wiltshire (as I said in my search criteria), GR offers me two possibls in overseas births 1761-1924. I guess it's just my bad luck if the "match" turns out to be a birth in 1924. It must be almost 6 pm UK time now, so I'll soon know! And I'm 100% sure I'll be very glad I didn't pay for the info.

This free access thing is a good idea. I think it will make me even more confident than ever that paying for it would be a bad one. ;)

LOL spilled my coffee now! I ws just about to add a comment anyway re the 1911 from an email from Ancestry.

Coming in 2011 :

"The 1911 Census will be available as part of all our memberships at no extra cost, so you can all enjoy scouring its pages. In January, we'll have big news about how we're going to release it. "

Well, sigh. There is no Benjamin B in those overseas births at all, just a page with a couple of Bs on it. What did I expect for free, eh?

As for Reuben C born c1825, well, there he is, the exact match: a Sgt in the Black Watch who died in 1944. That makes him pretty close to 120. I'm thrilled. Money well unspent, that was!

I wish I could think of something else I desperately needed to know that I could solve as easily in the next two hours ...

Oh, the one thing I do know about Reuben C is that he married in the 1870s (some years after he and Mary F had the last of their children), and died I forget when, but at a reasonably ripe old age. GR, however, tells me that there is no record of either event in the marriage index and death index.

They should have known that when FMP did the same during the World Cup it caused melt down ...it has just taken me since my last post to get back here.

i am so glad its not just me was begining to think it was a earlie april fools i carnt even get any census records

On the Facebook page, they had assured us that nooooo, this wouldn't be like that other time ... I mean, it isn't like they didn't know what to expect.


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