Find My Past (Genealogy) - 1 Month Free When Initially Accessed from Public Library ($19.95 Value)

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Kaibosh on 03/04/2016 - 15:19 findmypast.com.au (83 clicks)
Last edited 08/04/2016 - 20:34 by 1 other user

It's reasonably common knowledge that most public libraries have access to genealogy subscription sites like Ancestry.com.au and FindMyPast.com.au when used from their computers - however I was just at my local library (in Victoria) to use FindMyPast.com.au and it seems that the login at my library gave me a 1 month subscription to use anywhere, including from home.

After going to the site on the library PC, I had to log into FMP using my own login (this never used to be the case). Logged in, all good - World access in the library as expected. What wasn't expected it saying that I had a 1 month World subscription starting today.

Once I got home I checked and sure enough, I can access new records from home - presumably until my 1 month subscription expires.

Save a few dollars (1 month on the World plan costs $19.95) on genealogy research while being able to logon and access new records from home - no having to deal with a sticky keyboards and mouse while sitting half a a metre away from someone trying to surreptitiously watch porn.

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  StewBalls on 03/04/2016 - 15:32

  I'm not sure if this would go back far enough for me, I was here before the river and the trees; I remember the first raindrop and the first acorn.

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  PVA on 03/04/2016 - 15:33

  what happens after the month? Do they start billing you somehow and you had to enter credit card details?
  maybe the library doesnt have full access anymore and you only get a personal 1 month trial - like you have found, no library login, just personal.

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    Kaibosh on 03/04/2016 - 16:46

    It's definitely the library access - on the login page it says "welcome to such and such library service - once you login you'll have World access". Plus I used my existing account - an old account with no credit card details saved, after having logged in successfully from home before heading to the library (but not having access to the records at that time).

    No idea what happens after the month is up since I only found it today.

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  pointless martyr on 03/04/2016 - 15:35

  sitting half a a metre away from someone trying to surreptitiously watch porn

  Are you sure you were at the library?

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  King Steuart on 03/04/2016 - 16:54

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  What the hell is a library? Is that like some kind of museum?

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    StewBalls on 03/04/2016 - 17:12

    Yeah, IME it seems to be one where they now stockpile fat, muffin-top harpies that come complete with iPhone charger & shrill voices.

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  Buggles on 13/04/2016 - 02:47

  And that's only the fellas…..