FAO Dot

[kettledrum]

I've often seen how extraordinarily helpful you are to people wanting to search out their ancestors. Do you do this professionally? I'm looking for the birth date of someone (still alive) who's quite well documented but although I can find out lots, I can't find a birthdate without signing up to one of the services. And I'm reluctant to do this for just one search. If you'd be prepared to do this for me could you email me at [email protected].

[kettledrum]

To continue ... I've typed her first name + surname into ancestry.co.uk & she comes up immediately with the correct middle initial, so it really should be very easy! I'm just not keen on signing up to 14 days free trial and giving them my details for an £83 subscription even though they say I can cancel before 14 days have elapsed.

[jackthehat]

You can be confident that if you DO sign up for the free 14 days......you CAN cancel without incurring any costs. Just make sure that you keep the details of the cancellation telephone number to hand..............

[munchie63]

pop the name up and i can try ancestry if you wish.

as jth said, you can cancel ancestry easily...I've had rolling monthly membership on and off, cancelling when I'm too busy to use it, and starting again without problems

[kettledrum]

Hi Munchie! Thanks for your offer. As I'm enquiring about someone who's still living I'd rather not advertise her name here. Could you email me?

[craft1948]

Is this person actually related to you?

[kettledrum]

She's my daughter's mother-in-law.

[craft1948]

why can't you just ask your son-in-law?.........sorry I like to help in genealogy but it just seems a strange request.

[dothawkes31]

ahhh hi, well yes a few of us would be able to look for her but go on email me her name at [email protected] and i'll have a nosy, craft will email me too and we;ll have a gossip about it too lol

[dothawkes31]

Hope that is the right one, let me know!

[kettledrum]

Thanks Dot. I'm sure that will be the right one. I'm most grateful for all your help.

[Old_Geezer]

That is risky Dot, you may get all the spam creators, web crawlers picking your e-mail account out from here. IMO if posting an e-mail address on line it is usually worth creating a temporary one just to get first contact.

[dothawkes31]

yes old geezer you make a good point, the junk box in my hotmail is always full or absolutete garbage emails and i am sure some have been instigated by the odd cretin from this site but the security dilters are set quite well and the viris software is pretty good. I've posted my email here in genealogy since the topic started and so not afeared to do the same now. thanks for the warning and concern though x I've passed on to kettledrum the mother-in-laws details.