@roserobin12 wrote:
Bright ton, if you take up the 14 day trial you will have to give your CC number and if you do not cancel before the 14 days are up they will charge your credit card for a sub, very crafty. If you feel confident that you'll remember to cancel say on day 13 go for it but don't get caught like a friend of mine who ended up with a 12 month sub before she knew it.
That is not always that easy to do. I took the free trial many years ago, and when I as trying to cancel I was not able to. It took me several days and tries, and in the end it went through just in the last moment.
So, I am not a paid up member, never was. But in one stage I was able to type in surnames of various relatives (cousins of my parents and grandparents) and was taken to members board where people were searching for those names; that was when I found the post of my distant cousin - but I was not able to contact her. If she is paid up, I imagine she was able to access all the info for her father (my grandmother's nephew), as I have info and photos of tht line, some going all the way back to 1799. Then the records get very hard to read.
Yesterday, as I opened the My Heritage site to post the link here, I went back there and found 2 messages about another 2 very distant living relatives. I am not paid up member either, but they send you info about common ancestors and you are able to access the other person's family tree with the names of recent people blanked out. You get the full name of the person who started his family tree, and age and country he is in. And you get access to his full tree however the immediate living relatives = his parents/spouses and children/grandchildren are only listed with surname. But it was great, as I had some dates he had missing, and he had some dates I had missing. One of these 2 new discovered relatives has a very common name, but the other is relatively rare. I tried the Facebook and there are 2 that look the right age.
I found most of my tree info by going through the digitised archives of birth/marriages/death. All I had on my father's side was the names and place of birth of his parents. That was enough to find their birth records, and names of their parents with places they came from. And by searching the digital books from end of 19th century all the way back 100+years, I constructed my family tree, not just for the straight line but I also included all siblings (dozen often) and who they married.
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Voltaire: โThose Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities, Can Make You Commit Atrocitiesโ .
