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Mundia is retiring

Mike

Mike

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I never really understood how Mundia related to Ancestry but I did have an account with them and had made a few useful contacts with other members. I recently received the following email from Ancestry...

We are retiring Mundia

Over the years we have built up a variety of products that enable our users to discover, preserve and share their family history.

We recognize that there are a lot of ways that we, as a company, can make family history easier, more accessible and more fun for people all over the world.

In order to do this, we need to focus on our core offerings to ensure we're delivering the best service and best product experience to our customers. To that end, we've decided to invest more aggressively in our core Ancestry.com business and plan to retire the Mundia service.

Starting on September 5, 2014, Mundia.com trees will become part of Ancestry and be available in English, French, German, Italian, Swedish and Spanish.

We understand the value this service has brought you in discovering your family history around the world during your time as a member. To keep the discoveries you’ve made, we will be making your family tree accessible to you through Ancestry.com for free. This site will enable you to make edits to your family tree and share it with others.

To preserve the family trees you have created in your native language, we encourage you to download your GEDCOM file while logged into the Mundia site before September 5, after which time your family trees may not be offered in your native language on Ancestry.com.

For further questions, please visit our FAQ page or contact Member Services at support@mundia.com.

Please add notifications@ancestry.com to your address book to make sure you don't miss an email.

This is a customer service announcement to inform you that Mundia.com is being taken offline — you have received this message because you have registered with Mundia.com a website owned and operated by Ancestry.com. Use of Ancestry.com is subject to our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Statement, see website for details.
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Hmm the normal good wishes are to wish a long and happy retirement but in this case I suspect a death soon after retirement.
 
Tim said:
They'll just add the trees to their main site.
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True. Not good for me though as those trees will disappear from view. I have an Ancestry account but not an Ancestry subscription. Also I lose my message history and contacts. I will save the messages of course and most of the people I contacted I went on to exchange email address with so....

Guess I'm just moaning about not much really.

Mike
 
Ask your contacts to move their trees to Ancestry. You don't need to subscribe to load trees and you can make them private.
 
I don't think they will need to as Ancestry is doing that for them.
It won't help me though as I won't be able to see them.
 
I can't see any trees.

e.g.

"Search" "Public Member Trees"

Enter a name, click "Search"

Up come lots of results.

Click on a tree name under "Member Tree" columns and I get the

Try us free for 14 days... etc screen

i.e. no access unless I pay
 
Hi Mike,

No, I think you need to register, but you don't have to pay to register.
 
Mike, I keep a free account on Ancestry most of the time. If your family invites you to see their tree, you'll be able to access it under "my family trees" (and you won't be able to view attached sources from Ancestry). You won't be able to surf them openly like on Mundia.
 
cfbandit said:
You won't be able to surf them openly like on Mundia.
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That's the big drawback really. And as I would struggle to call any of them family I don't expect many invites.
It's not a big problem. I am always watching out for Ancestry short term special offers and always can do a trawl of the trees when they occur.
Thanks for the advice
 
You could always try this route? 6 months Ancestry membership for £29.99
And software thrown in free!!
 
I often do a month at a time, Mike. I did 3 months with .co.uk, now I'm doing a month with .ca, and I think I need to do a month with .com in order to clear up oodles of hints and potential connections.

I don't expect many invites
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Ask if you can. I often mail folks from the library messages with my user and email to contact me. It's a pretty good way of doing it, I get about 50% responses.
 
Mike said:
I have been on that 4 months for £20 offer from Jan to May. It was an amazing bargain.
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Me too! I'm debating whether to try it again, but with holidays etc, I'm not sure. Which one of us will be the one to find out whether it applies to lapsed subscribers? Assuming Ancestry.co.uk is up, of course!
 
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