Saturday 6 July 2013

RootsIreland births/baptism 40% discount

Claire Santry has just picked up on an offer from RootsIreland (www.rootsireland.ie) via its Twitter feed that all birth/baptism records are currently being discounted by 40% until July 14th.

Claire's post on the offer is at http://irish-genealogy-news.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/roots-ireland-offers-40-discount.html and highlights the usual clear-as-mud nature of a RootsIreland announcement. Claire notes that there is no mention of this on the company's site at all - not even in its news section - until you go to a search page.

I've just had a look, and it seems that birth/baptism records are now just 15 credits each instead of 25. However, from what I can see, you can't search for one record and just pay for that record at 15 credits - you still have to make a minimum purchase of 25 credits, and so once again there's a credits left over situation afterwards.

A discount is always welcome - particularly from a company that charges high rates for what it offers - but didn't we have enough of this nonsense recently when the site tried to reorganise its payment set up?!

(With thanks to Claire Santry)

Chris

My new book, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet, is now available from Pen and Sword. My Scottish land and church records ebooks are available at http://www.gen-ebooks.com/unlock-the-past.html, whilst my next Pharos Scottish course, Scottish Research Online, starts Sep 4th - see http://pharostutors.com/details.php?coursenumber=102. Time to smash a few brick walls...!

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