Genealogy Chat

I have just had an email from Findmypast advising that they are going to deny access to already purchased records unless you have a valid subscription.
I have sent a email to them saying how appalled I am thy they are denying previous members who will have such a lot of saved records.
Just think it is pure greed
A very disgruntled Norma

Unfortunately, Norma, you'll find the other main FH sites do the same eg
- Genesreunited.
- Ancestry.

Its always wise to download images to your own device while you have access, then upload them to the site in question. Sadly, in your case, its too late to act on the advice.

Good advice from +++DetEcTive+++ regarding downloading the images. Personally, I print hard copies too and file them. That way if any future generations of the family become interested in the family history they can inherit my research (all neatly and carefully indexed, hopefully) when I shuffle off this mortal coil. I'll have to hang around a bit longer though as I am still working on the index.

Hi all
i have just had an email from Findmypast and they said that the list of of viewed records within my records is safe so think this new regime may only apply to new records you may have during future subscriptions
This shows part of that email

The list of records you have viewed is safe within "My records" also, so you will still be able to keep track of the records you have viewed, and have easy access if you choose to subscribe again in future

Bit happier now thanks for your comments
Norma

I have had a similar email, but as I always print off hard copies of everything I didn't take much notice.

I read it as saying that the list of records will still be there, but that you will only be able to view them if you take out a subscription.

As others have said, I would download them in the next couple of days, while you still can.

If you've read various random 'look-up' posts on the boards, you'd occasionally see a 'helper' quote from a tree on Ancestry but add that the events aren't sourced.
That's usually because the tree owner has allowed their subscription to lapse.

If they renew, the sources 'magically' reappear. It sounds very much like what happens on FMP.

Thank you for all your comments,like most of you I have hard copies of all my records as I have a large file for each family,but I find the My Records useful for The 1939 Register as redacted records will become visible when that record reaches 100 or FMP have sourced the death record which has happened to me on several occasions when I have revisited these records.
Ancestry had a free weekend for The 1939 Register a couple of months back and I found a couple of records on their site that I had not found on FMP,so that weekend was really useful to me.