Comments on: Do You Have the Luck of the Irish? Enter Our Sweepstakes to Find Out!

By: Theresa

Theresa — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:33:02 +0000

Does anybody know who won the sweepstakes? it said several days ago “last chance to enter”….then nothing but a new sweepstakes.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 05:52:33 +0000

I see no ‘Launch Wish2Win’ button.

By: Paul Rawlins

Paul Rawlins — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:22:51 +0000

“Susan, we apologize for the frustration. We’re not sure exactly what issue may be affecting your entry, but here are some things to try:

1) Make sure that you are logged into Facebook when you try to access the sweepstakes

2) Click the orange “Launch Wish2Win” button

3) For the sweepstakes to work, you MUST click “Allow” on the “Request for Permission” Page. If you do not allow the permissions, the sweepstakes will not work.

4) Fill out your wish and your name and hit “Submit My Wish”

5) If you see a blank screen at any point, clear your cache and refresh the page – call our customer service for help with this, if necessary at1-800-ANCESTRY or support@ancestry.com.

6) If the sweepstakes still will not appear, try using another browser

Please let us know if this helps.

ACOM”

By: Susan Mooney

Susan Mooney — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:30:49 +0000

I can’t figure out how in the world to enter the contest! It just keeps me going in circles. How do I actually get to write a entry to the contest?

By: Tony Cousins

Tony Cousins — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:16:46 +0000

Some answers are listed in a new blog – http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2011/03/17/qa-from-finding-your-irish-ancestors-in-america-and-ireland/

TonyC

By: Rebeccca

Rebeccca — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:15:40 +0000

Still no answers to questions asked during last nights webinar? Am I looking in the right place?

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:53:45 +0000

I thought that last night they said that answers to our questions would be in the blog today, if so where if not here?

By: Judy Owen

Judy Owen — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:26:35 +0000

Absolute shame a Facebook account is required to enter the sweepstakes! Based on recently reported security breaches for Facebook, I do not feel the security on that site is sufficient to warrant sensitive genealogy information. Consequently, I guess I am not worthy of entering your sweepstakes.

By: eyes

eyes — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:53:11 +0000

I live in the US, but have no US ancestors. Ancestry.com has been exceptional on my father’s side (Canadian, English, French). On my mother’s side (100% Irish) there have been zero useful hints and record searches have been completely useless, despite the fact that I’ve added data for many, many Irish relatives going back to the early 19th century. Don’t get me wrong – I’m not unhappy. I just don’t like to see anyone mislead that the Irish records (including the newly available data bases) available at ancestry are particularly useful.

By: Ellen Fritz

Ellen Fritz — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:58:10 +0000

I really enjoyed last night’s web seminar about finding your Irish ancestors. One topic that came up particularly helped me out. I have always been lead to believe that my Great Grandfather Ennis was Catholic and his wife was Methodist. He died very young and my Grandfather Ennis was place in an orphanage/school in Philadelphia, Pa. Since I have been researching them on line in the 1880 census their religion is given as Baptist. Also so far at least I have been unable to find the emigrant.