{"id":659,"date":"2006-06-04T13:11:24","date_gmt":"2006-06-04T12:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/06\/04\/shameless-promotion\/"},"modified":"2006-06-04T13:11:24","modified_gmt":"2006-06-04T12:11:24","slug":"shameless-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/06\/04\/shameless-promotion\/","title":{"rendered":"Shameless promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My home broadband is from a company called <a href=\"http:\/\/ads.madasafish.com\/click.asp?id=6&#038;zone=5&#038;realm=5&#038;track=0&#038;ref=4018713\">Madasafish<\/a>. While that may not seem immediately promising, they&#8217;re as fast as BT &#8211; since they use the same exchanges &#8211; and cheaper. The normal price is \u00a317.99 a month, but you get the first six months at \u00a311.99 a month, so the first year (which is as much as you need to sign up for) average at \u00a314.99. It&#8217;s not unlimited usage, but you get 5Gb inclusive each month, and it&#8217;s \u00a32 for each additional gigabyte. I&#8217;ve found them very good value for money even though I sometimes go over the download threshold. There&#8217;s also a pricier account that comes with 20Gb. The couple of times I&#8217;ve used their customer support they&#8217;ve been very helpful and polite and sorted out any problems quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Why I am writing this? Because if you sign up <a href=\"http:\/\/ads.madasafish.com\/click.asp?id=6&#038;zone=5&#038;realm=5&#038;track=0&#038;ref=4018713\">using this link<\/a> (or an ad on this blog), they&#8217;ll credit your account with \u00a310 and give me \u00a320. So it&#8217;s in my interest to get you signed up \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m at it, here are a couple of genealogy recommendations which I <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> get paid for. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancestry.co.uk\/\">Ancestry<\/a> now have the 1841 census online, meaning that all seven England &#038; Wales censuses from 1841 to 1901 are now available through their site. There is a subscription fee, but if you&#8217;re doing a lot of research it&#8217;s well worth it.<\/p>\n<p>Another source for genealogical research is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sog.org.uk\">Society of Genealogists<\/a>. 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