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Barbara Lawrence

Free search from Ancestry

Legg inn av Barbara Lawrence » 09 nov 2006 13:57:03

Search Ancestry.com recently enlarged Immigration and ships passenger list
collection for free during November. There's a the link at the bottom of
this page:

http://www.gendisasters.com

Click on it and it will take you to the free immigration search page.

hope this helps.

David J Grimshaw

Re: Free search from Ancestry

Legg inn av David J Grimshaw » 09 nov 2006 19:32:10

Barbara Lawrence wrote:
Search Ancestry.com recently enlarged Immigration and ships passenger list
collection for free during November. There's a the link at the bottom of
this page:

http://www.gendisasters.com

Click on it and it will take you to the free immigration search page.

hope this helps.


Hi everyone,

What Barbara has not told everyone is to view these records one must
give their e-mail address and credit card number, this is the usual case
of having to give Ancestry.com your credit card number, so this offer
comes with fish hooks.
Again Ancestry.com is up to it's entrapment capers so beware.
If you take this offer up and do not cancel before the end of the free
period Ancestry.com will bill you so beware, you have been warned.

Hope this helps stop some falling into the trap.

Joe Pessarra

Re: Free search from Ancestry

Legg inn av Joe Pessarra » 09 nov 2006 19:37:44

"David J Grimshaw" <hawke_eye_david@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
news:eivs59$8to$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
Barbara Lawrence wrote:
Search Ancestry.com recently enlarged Immigration and ships passenger
list
collection for free during November. There's a the link at the bottom
of
this page:

http://www.gendisasters.com

Click on it and it will take you to the free immigration search page.

hope this helps.


Hi everyone,
What Barbara has not told everyone is to view these records one must
give their e-mail address and credit card number, this is the usual case
of having to give Ancestry.com your credit card number, so this offer
comes with fish hooks.
Again Ancestry.com is up to it's entrapment capers so beware.
If you take this offer up and do not cancel before the end of the free
period Ancestry.com will bill you so beware, you have been warned.

Hope this helps stop some falling into the trap.

Thank you David. I was just getting ready to send a note to our local
genealogy group about this.

Joe in Texas

Huntersglenn

Re: Free search from Ancestry

Legg inn av Huntersglenn » 09 nov 2006 20:30:04

David J Grimshaw wrote:

Hi everyone,
What Barbara has not told everyone is to view these records one must
give their e-mail address and credit card number, this is the usual case
of having to give Ancestry.com your credit card number, so this offer
comes with fish hooks.
Again Ancestry.com is up to it's entrapment capers so beware.
If you take this offer up and do not cancel before the end of the free
period Ancestry.com will bill you so beware, you have been warned.

Hope this helps stop some falling into the trap.

This is no different than the supposed 'free trial offers' from AOL or
some of the other service providers that come regularly in the mail.
It's one of those things where each person has to decide if 1) giving
that out in order to see the information is important enough for them
and 2) if they trust themselves to cancel before the trial period ends.

So, while this isn't perfect for everybody, there are still a lot of
people who will benefit from the trial, and I don't consider it to be a
trap as much as an unfair burden to put the decision to discontinue onto
the user (I'd prefer it be up to the person to decide to continue,
instead, and have it automatically expire at the end of the trial period).

Cathy

Anne Chambers

Re: Free search from Ancestry

Legg inn av Anne Chambers » 09 nov 2006 22:20:04

David J Grimshaw wrote:

Barbara Lawrence wrote:

Search Ancestry.com recently enlarged Immigration and ships passenger
list
collection for free during November. There's a the link at the bottom of
this page:

http://www.gendisasters.com

Click on it and it will take you to the free immigration search page.

hope this helps.


Hi everyone,
What Barbara has not told everyone is to view these records one must
give their e-mail address and credit card number, this is the usual case
of having to give Ancestry.com your credit card number, so this offer
comes with fish hooks.
Again Ancestry.com is up to it's entrapment capers so beware.
If you take this offer up and do not cancel before the end of the free
period Ancestry.com will bill you so beware, you have been warned.

Hope this helps stop some falling into the trap.

Not so - they ask you to register with username, password and email
address, no credit card details are asked for. I registered ages ago,
have not had any spam from them either!


--
Anne Chambers, South Australia

the_verminator@comcast.ne

Re: Free search from Ancestry

Legg inn av the_verminator@comcast.ne » 09 nov 2006 22:57:17

David J Grimshaw wrote:
Barbara Lawrence wrote:
Search Ancestry.com recently enlarged Immigration and ships passenger list
collection for free during November. There's a the link at the bottom of
this page:

http://www.gendisasters.com

Click on it and it will take you to the free immigration search page.

hope this helps.


Hi everyone,
What Barbara has not told everyone is to view these records one must
give their e-mail address and credit card number, this is the usual case
of having to give Ancestry.com your credit card number, so this offer
comes with fish hooks.
Again Ancestry.com is up to it's entrapment capers so beware.
If you take this offer up and do not cancel before the end of the free
period Ancestry.com will bill you so beware, you have been warned.

Hope this helps stop some falling into the trap.

What "trap"?

Ancestry warns you up front that if you don't cancel withing the
alloted time they will bill you.

If a person avails themself of this free trial without reading all the
details it is their own fault if they incur an charge- not Ancestry's.

All this BS about protecting people from their own decisions is absurd.

--
The Verminator

Ron

Re: Free search from Ancestry

Legg inn av Ron » 09 nov 2006 23:21:37

Barbara Lawrence wrote:
Search Ancestry.com recently enlarged Immigration and ships passenger list
collection for free during November. There's a the link at the bottom of
this page:

http://www.gendisasters.com

Click on it and it will take you to the free immigration search page.

hope this helps.

Alas I can see the words about it but the hyperlink seems to have been
removed

Ron Lankshear - Sydney Aust (from London- Shepherds Bush & Chiswick)
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~lankshear/

Anne Chambers

Re: Free search from Ancestry

Legg inn av Anne Chambers » 09 nov 2006 23:36:05

Ron wrote:

Barbara Lawrence wrote:

Search Ancestry.com recently enlarged Immigration and ships passenger
list
collection for free during November. There's a the link at the bottom of
this page:

http://www.gendisasters.com

Click on it and it will take you to the free immigration search page.

hope this helps.


Alas I can see the words about it but the hyperlink seems to have been
removed

Ron Lankshear - Sydney Aust (from London- Shepherds Bush & Chiswick)
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~lankshear/


http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bf ... who246-130

--
Anne Chambers, South Australia

cecilia

Re: Free search from Ancestry

Legg inn av cecilia » 10 nov 2006 01:08:01

Anne Chambers wrote:
David J Grimshaw wrote:
Barbara Lawrence wrote:
Search Ancestry.com recently enlarged Immigration and ships passenger
list collection for free during November. There's a the link at the bottom of
[...] http://www.gendisasters.com
What Barbara has not told everyone is to view these records one must
give their e-mail address and credit card number[...]
Not so - they ask you to register with username, password and email
address, no credit card details are asked for. [...]

I agree with Anne. I was able to get index results without logging
in. I needed to log in to see an image, and I used the registration
initially set up so that I could post to ancestry's surname boards -
no credit card details required or given.

Ron

Re: Free search from Ancestry

Legg inn av Ron » 10 nov 2006 05:59:01

Anne Chambers wrote:
Ron wrote:



http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bf ... who246-130


Thanks Anne that works a charm

and some amazing data

Just picked up a new one for my study - Beulah Lankshear crossing at Detroit

--
Ron Lankshear - Sydney Aust (from London- Shepherds Bush & Chiswick)
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~lankshear/

Brendan R. Wehrung

Re: Free search from Ancestry

Legg inn av Brendan R. Wehrung » 10 nov 2006 09:14:54

David J Grimshaw (hawke_eye_david@yahoo.com.au) writes:
Barbara Lawrence wrote:
Search Ancestry.com recently enlarged Immigration and ships passenger list
collection for free during November. There's a the link at the bottom of
this page:

http://www.gendisasters.com

Click on it and it will take you to the free immigration search page.

hope this helps.


Hi everyone,
What Barbara has not told everyone is to view these records one must
give their e-mail address and credit card number, this is the usual case
of having to give Ancestry.com your credit card number, so this offer
comes with fish hooks.
Again Ancestry.com is up to it's entrapment capers so beware.
If you take this offer up and do not cancel before the end of the free
period Ancestry.com will bill you so beware, you have been warned.

Hope this helps stop some falling into the trap.


I just had to give my name, and I gave them my junk mail Hotmail address.

Brendan

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