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The 1939 Register

Bob's comments confirm what I've said previously. Banks use complex algorithms to determine which transactions are high risk and which ones aren't, and (for obvious reasons) only they know exactly how they work.

In the past 12 months between 3% and 4% of LostCousins subscription purchases have been flagged by our bank as high risk:

Risk Management result: WARNING
This transaction has been identified as potentially high risk. We strongly
recommend further checks before fulfilment of an order.

I routinely ignore these warnings and process the subscription purchases as normal because in 10 years there hasn't been a single occasion on which a purchase was fraudulent. But the fact that their algorithms throw up this many spurious warnings shows that they're far from perfect.

Marguerite may well be right that the change from mostly subscriptions to mostly PAYG following the launch of the 1939 Register may have confused the banks' algorithms. The response from Customer Support about only using the UK site makes sense to me - some people do use more than one Findmypast site, and this can be inadvertent (since the web address of the US site used to be the address of the UK site). Clearly this isn't what happened in Marguerite's case, but the person in Customer Support probably won't have known that.
 
Ok folks, just an update on my problems of submitting two death certs for the same household on the 1939 Register. After much tooing and froing and FMP asking me to submit death certs via various browsers, it has come to light it was because the file size of my death certs (some of them) were too large. I have now scanned at a lower resolution and the death certs have finally gone! YIPPPPEEEE! :)

You'll be pleased to hear Peter that I challenged FMP and asked if they were refusing my death certs due to a limit on numbers and they most heartily refuted this and said the more records we can open the better - for that (at least) I applaud FMP.
 
Received this today:

Dear Gillian,
Unfortunately we're having trouble continuing your Findmypast membership.
The reason we can't continue your membership automatically is probably because your card has changed or expired.
To continue your membership, please go to our secure payment page here

From me:

Ancestry, Deceased Online, etc. are successfully accessing payment as are other companies (non-genealogist).

BTW, my first name is Gillian but here in Switzerland, and US apparently, "Gillian" is unheard of. There are Rottweilers and other breeds who bear the name of Gill or Jill - aargh!
 
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Marguerite said:
BTW, my first name is Gillian but here in Switzerland, and US apparently, "Gillian" is unheard of.
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Wait until our (Finnish domiciled) Gillian hears about this. :mad: My paternal cousin's daughter is a Gillian and I have a maternal cousin Jill. As for being unknown in the US probably as well as it would end up as Gile-ean in the same way they mangle Colin (one or two in the family) as Co-lin.
 
Bob, Mum thought that I, as 8 month arrival, was too small for a name such as Marguerite and added Gillian??

The "Marguerite" was because of my Great Grandmother, Margaretha.
 
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Hi, here's "Finnish domiciled Gillian". Without letting on about my exact age, I can tell you that there were three of us called Gillian in my class at school. Also, I've never had any difficulty with my name in the US. It's true people usually pronounce it with a hard g as in glib, glub or something like that, until I tell them it's Gillian as in Jillian. Once that little matter's cleared up, there's no more trouble. I was always known as Gill (as in Jill) at school and uni, but never at home; there I was Gilly or something else I won't bother to write. When I moved to Finland I decided Gillian was a much better, more adult kind of name and stopped using Gill. I'll answer to it, though, if necessary.
BTW, Marguerite, I received exactly the same notification from FMP; perhaps they got us mixed up! Or perhaps they have a template for Gillians.
 
I have nothing agains Gillian, Gillian, just wanted to make it clear why I resorted to Marguerite on the forums.

I actually called myself "Jill" until my 8-year older brother said why? You were christened "Gillian" and the shortened form is "Gill".

I guess I have always been manipulated.
 
You had a much politer older brother than I did, which is why I couldn't possibly write here what he (actually they - two older brothers) called me! But I go along with the manipulated.
 
Sounds familiar. No wonder I always wished I'd had a sister. However, something tells me we've gone rather off topic so perhaps we'd better leave it at that. .
 
Marguerite said:
I have nothing agains Gillian, Gillian, just wanted to make it clear why I resorted to Marguerite on the forums.
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A very wise choice. Much better than selecting something like Major (Major Major Major), as in Catch 22. I thought that very funny when reading the book but now find several of my ancestors on my mother's side also had such a name (singular, not 4 times).

PS. This is just a comment in passing when I read the "Gillian, Gillian" and is NOT intended as an attempt to divert this thread/conversation.
 
Gillian said:
there I was Gilly or something else I won't bother to write
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Did they ever get round to calling you (with or without the hard 'G' as intended) .... Gilly gilly ossenfeffer katzenellen-bogen by the Sea? (At home we had a Max Bygraves record with him singing that very popular song of the time, early 50's I think)
 
Getting back on topic, has everyone seen the important update to my newsletter article?
 
peter said:
Getting back on topic, has everyone seen the important update to my newsletter article?
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Hint hint, nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more, yes Peter I've seen it but haven't had time to check it out yet, too busy with the C thing.
 
Heather said:
Hint hint, nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more, yes Peter I've seen it but haven't had time to check it out yet, too busy with the C thing.
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Stop slouching at the back and sit up Teacher's in the room, no more going off topic. I think Bryman was the sneak who told on us.;)
 
No chance! A large slab of iced Christmas cake maybe - but now we are off topic so I will not reply to any more snide comments in this thread even though the moderators seem to be asleep at the back of the class (but I'm not letting on).
 
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