Rootsireland - one day sub

pinkypinky · 17-05-2016 2:35pm #1

https://rootsireland.ie/ifhf/subscribe.php

€10 for a 24 hour sub - great idea of theirs.
I'll certainly make use of it.

Thomas from Presence · 17-05-2016 3:17pm

You'll need more than that to get any worth out of that diabolical search engine. If they allowed for proper wildcard searches one would have a chance of finding stuff in there within that day!

Tychoo · 18-05-2016 11:46am

I gave up on this site. Way too expensive

pinkypinky · 18-05-2016 12:01pm

Well, to be fair to it, the irishnewsarchive is also a tenner for a one day sub and I have problems searching their database too.

I think it's a positive move and a good response to Ancestry/FMP having the database transcribed, which the NLI let them do for free.

Hermy · 18-05-2016 12:10pm

Both Roots and Irish News Archive need to improve their services - merely reducing their prices is not sufficient.

blackbird 49 · 19-05-2016 10:52pm

If you use the 1 day subscription, can you just put in a name or do you have to trawl through the whole lot, Thanks

pinkypinky · 20-05-2016 10:48am

There is a searchable database, so you can just put in names.

Hermy · 20-05-2016 11:42am

To complete a search you still have to enter more than one parameter which is very frustrating.

R0C · 18-06-2016 3:56pm

I signed up for their 24 hour subscription last weekend, and around 6 hours into it, I received a red warning telling me I had broken their monthly fair usage policy and could not use their website again for one month.

Part of their current deal is that if you sign up for one day, and proceed to join for one month, they will subtract your €10 from their monthly price. I was on the verge of doing this having gained some interesting new leads, but hitting their fair usage limit meant I couldn't do so.

I hadn't browsed very many records at all when I hit the limit, so beware the limit is quite tight. I wasn't using their website constantly for the 6 hours, more a few minutes here and there, probably an hour of use in total.

The reason I suddenly hit the limit was by quickly clicking through records for a very common Irish name (hoping to spot the correct parish) and I had no easy way of narrowing the results due to their search engine limitations.

I don't feel I got anywhere near a fair amount of use for €10, so just something to be aware of.

I've used the site more heavily many times in the past including last year and never hit any fair usage limits. I assume it's a new introduction.

pinkypinky · 19-06-2016 4:57pm

I'm on mobile atm so please excuse short reply.
Check their t&cs on the fair usage and I would send an email noting the issue. It doesn't make sense to have stingy policy in place for a day sub when clearly users will be trying to maximise usage

Tychoo · 19-06-2016 6:59pm

Looks like a con job by RI.

Hermy · 19-06-2016 8:25pm

pinkypinky wrote: »

...It doesn't make sense to have stingy policy in place...

Yet that's been there way for as long as I can remember.

Mumha · 20-06-2016 9:23am

What do you get with them, that you can't get anywhere else ?

shanew · 20-06-2016 12:33pm

They have transcripts of more recent RC records than the NLI films, also civil and non-Catholic records.

Hermy · 20-06-2016 5:42pm

Mumha wrote: »

What do you get with them, that you can't get anywhere else ?

Headaches!:o

Rootsireland - one day sub

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