I've used it twice but I don't think I'll use it again in the immediate future. I've been doing genealogy a few years and have realistically gone back as far as I think I'm likely to with my family (mid-1600s on direct paternal line and a little earlier on some branches of my maternal line) but there's still a couple of little mysteries nearer my own time frame that I'd like to clear up.

However, when I found out just how expensive it was, I really baulked at coughing-up so much for transcripts and images. In the past, I'd become very 'strategic' about buying BMD certificates as it's pretty expensive - at least to me - and the 1911 census is pretty much the same in that respect.

I don't see how the price is justified at all. Whilst the colour images (one of the reasons why it's so expensive) are nice to look at, I'm not sure what they offer that the grey-scale/black and white ones didn't previously. They are more legible sure, but I'm not so sure they're that much more legible. Any 'aesthetic' reasons are also off-set by the fact that the 'Infirmity' column is whited-out so crudely anyway.

I'm sure that someone was hoping to make a fortune from this - although I doubt it will happen - in the current economic climate. I've got a feeling it will actually end-up on Ancestry sooner rather than later because of this.

Obviously being interested in family history I'm keen for public records to be made available. Whilst I understand the cost of IT infrastructure involved, I really dislike the idea that it's translated into a commercial venture. I don't suppose it's any different from the government selling on other personal records to private firms though other than these particular people are more likely to be dead.

It's nice to see more writing examples though, complete with spelling mistakes.