I was able to free up my 62 credits, plus 10 for another 2159 hours !=D>
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Marilyn
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Hi
Thanks for the tip but how do I actually receive the credits. Have logged on to SP as usual but not there.
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Bertha
Thanks for the tip but how do I actually receive the credits. Have logged on to SP as usual but not there.
Regards
Bertha
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I dreamed a dream last night that this promotion was still running. I even dreamed that someone, very recently, had reminded us of the fact, that there had been some discussion, and that yesterday I had given some not necessarily helpful advice to someone who was having difficulties getting the free credits as compared to others who were having no problem at all.
If you Google around you’ll find that the promotion has been running, probably continuously, since at least June 2008 and that the problem with some people getting credits when they register and others not has been around for most of that time. You’ll find references to the free credit thing all over the internet and in the most unlikely places.
This is a promotion by the Scottish Tourist Board through their AncestralScotland website http://www.ancestralscotland.com/. It is part of the promotion of the Homecoming Scotland 2009 which is to do with the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns. But it is directed at and is clearly intended only for the use of those living anywhere but Scotland so maybe Scottish residents shouldn’t get involved.
In fact if you have a hundred friends and relatives, or even less, living anywhere else but Scotland, the best thing you could do for Scotland is to ask each of them to go to the AncestralScotland site, read what’s there, register for the newsletter, and, if they’re lucky enough to get a voucher, and they have no use for it, send it to you. If everyone did that the Scottish Tourist Board would be very happy. Isn’t that what it’s all about?
Does anyone seriously think that the Tourist Board is paying you £2 so that you’ll read their newsletter, surely it couldn’t be that bad. It’s just a promotion, a means of publicising, and the more people get to hear about it the happier they’ll be. They don’t seem to have a problem with the way it has been working for the last almost twelve months.
People who have bags of money aren’t going to bother asking all their friends or aren’t going to fiddle with their email accounts to make multiple registrations. But then again maybe they will if they are sick of the 1 credit search rip-off and the way SP gobbles up their cash. The end-user may see the 10 credits as being worth £2 but they are not worth anything to SP as they could pump a million credits into the AncestralScotland system and it would cost them not one iota. The Scottish Tourism and Culture Minister described SP and AS “combined, the two sites offer a perfect "one-stop shop." http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/News-Extras/56
Maybe it’s just my imagination but the forum seems to have been fairly quiet in recent weeks. Maybe it has something to do with the economic downturn and fewer people are aggressively attacking their genealogy. That’s why freebies are so important in times like this, I always used to hang around forums in the hope of getting news of a freebee, in fact I still do. Just this thread alone has over 1100 page views so maybe I’m not alone. I’ve forgotten how many there were in the one in my dreams.
The Scottish Tourist Board would probably be even happier if someone moved this thread to General Discussion where it would be more prominent.
All the best,
Alan
If you Google around you’ll find that the promotion has been running, probably continuously, since at least June 2008 and that the problem with some people getting credits when they register and others not has been around for most of that time. You’ll find references to the free credit thing all over the internet and in the most unlikely places.
This is a promotion by the Scottish Tourist Board through their AncestralScotland website http://www.ancestralscotland.com/. It is part of the promotion of the Homecoming Scotland 2009 which is to do with the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns. But it is directed at and is clearly intended only for the use of those living anywhere but Scotland so maybe Scottish residents shouldn’t get involved.
In fact if you have a hundred friends and relatives, or even less, living anywhere else but Scotland, the best thing you could do for Scotland is to ask each of them to go to the AncestralScotland site, read what’s there, register for the newsletter, and, if they’re lucky enough to get a voucher, and they have no use for it, send it to you. If everyone did that the Scottish Tourist Board would be very happy. Isn’t that what it’s all about?
Does anyone seriously think that the Tourist Board is paying you £2 so that you’ll read their newsletter, surely it couldn’t be that bad. It’s just a promotion, a means of publicising, and the more people get to hear about it the happier they’ll be. They don’t seem to have a problem with the way it has been working for the last almost twelve months.
People who have bags of money aren’t going to bother asking all their friends or aren’t going to fiddle with their email accounts to make multiple registrations. But then again maybe they will if they are sick of the 1 credit search rip-off and the way SP gobbles up their cash. The end-user may see the 10 credits as being worth £2 but they are not worth anything to SP as they could pump a million credits into the AncestralScotland system and it would cost them not one iota. The Scottish Tourism and Culture Minister described SP and AS “combined, the two sites offer a perfect "one-stop shop." http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/News-Extras/56
Maybe it’s just my imagination but the forum seems to have been fairly quiet in recent weeks. Maybe it has something to do with the economic downturn and fewer people are aggressively attacking their genealogy. That’s why freebies are so important in times like this, I always used to hang around forums in the hope of getting news of a freebee, in fact I still do. Just this thread alone has over 1100 page views so maybe I’m not alone. I’ve forgotten how many there were in the one in my dreams.
The Scottish Tourist Board would probably be even happier if someone moved this thread to General Discussion where it would be more prominent.
All the best,
Alan
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Hi Alan
Good post and valid points,.
I think I may be the person in your dream having the problem and simply asking for help, I can understand admins point also that if people are doing the wrong thing but why should everyone else be penalised.
I did reply to your post on how to fix the problem and that I would just continue on and purchase the credits as usual, not sure if your replied to that post as the whole thing had been removed from the site. If you did then I am sorry not to have got back to you. Thanks for your help anyway.
Trish
Good post and valid points,.
I think I may be the person in your dream having the problem and simply asking for help, I can understand admins point also that if people are doing the wrong thing but why should everyone else be penalised.
I did reply to your post on how to fix the problem and that I would just continue on and purchase the credits as usual, not sure if your replied to that post as the whole thing had been removed from the site. If you did then I am sorry not to have got back to you. Thanks for your help anyway.
Trish
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