Genealogy Chat

Thanks Chris. I think i will phone Ancestry again tomorrow!

I have the premium membership and was offered the 25% discount. I couldn't get on with Findmypast, much prefer Ancestry.

Chris

do most of you have world wide membership. I have been offered 10% off on a premium membership!

Can anyone advise which could be better to have find my past explorer at £89.95 or Ancestry premium that will cost me 96.66

n

Thanks Jonesey,

Just made my call to Ancestry, 25% discount offered so renewing.

Chris

Thanks Jonesey.

Will bookmark it for when my membership is due for renewal too.

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Thanks for the tip Jonesey, I received my e-mail last week so will do the same.

Chris

Paul,

£78 for worldwide seems cheap, I just paid £116 instead of £155, I have had worldwide 2 years now and still dont know how to use it properly, I think I am going to have to ask for help.

Regards
Sandra

"n"

I didn't even have to be cheeky when i phoned to cancel mine the other day

Straight away they offer me 25% when i said i was cancelling cos i couldn't afford it

thanks jonesey another great tip
cheers linda

It's a pity that Ancestry doesn't follow Findmypast in offering a discount. With time as your tree builds your usage tends to decline, however the costs generally continue to rise.

Wouldn't it be nice to have an annual discount for continuous membership that would reflex the above.

Having to watch the £'s at the moment I have reverted back to the basic package after my Worldwide membership at £78 expired.

I do appreciate they are a business and need to make money but wouldn't it be nice to have some sort of loyalty award.

Paul

I think this qualifies as Tip of the Month.

Many thanks Jonesey...my membership is due for renewal this month I will certainly give it a go.

Linda

Nice one Jonesey, have also bookmarked this. Where would we be without you!
Jan

Thank you for that Jonesey. Will bookmark it ready for when my membership there is due for renewal. Cx

It sometimes pays to be cheeky.

My Ancestry membership was due for renewal recently. As per their normal practice Ancestry sent me an email beforehand advising me of the forthcoming event and telling me that there was no need for me to take any action as they would take payment of my subscription directly from my bank account.

A couple of days before my existing subscription was due to expire I decided to give them a call (Freephone 0800 404 9723) during which I pointed out that Find My Past gave their existing subscribers a 20% "Loyalty" discount at renewal time and asked whether Ancestry offered a similar arrangement.

"No" said the Ancestry employee "But I can offer you a 25% discount from our normal subscription rates if you decide to stay with us"

"Fair enough" says I "In which case I will stay with Ancestry"

The result was that I saved £38.80.

N.B. The actual procedure being that effectively your existing Ancestry membership is cancelled and you take out a new subscription at the reduced payment rate. There are no problems with the cancellation as you still retain all your existing details and access to your existing family trees on Ancestry is unaffected. In fact the old membership cancellation / new membership initiation is instantaneous so apart from the extra money still in your pocket you will not notice any change whatsoever.