Hello, Listers,   just a short note on paying Ancestry for access to what is available for free in TAS.... I am a TAS descendant who lives in America...and sincerely wishes I had the luxury of being able to go to a local library to access such information. Being able to access much information (yes, it is not error free but is better than no access at all) through Ancestry is, for me, worth the price as the information I find is priceless!   cheers, elaine On Friday, July 18, 2014 7:36 PM, Douglas Burbury via <aus-tasmania@rootsweb.com> wrote: Apologies for prolonging a thread which is clearly off-topic for this list ... but the ADB and the other database mentioned below are entirely different. On 19/07/2014 10:22 AM, narnty via wrote: > I recently received an email from Geneanet advertising - amongst other > databases > "Johns's notable Australians and Who is who in Australasia, a dictionary of > biography containing records of the careers of men and women of distinction > in the commonwealth of Australia and the dominion of New Zealand" which I > can access for 45 Euros pa. > > Am I wrong in thinking this is the same as The Australian Online Dictionary > of Biographies - freely available to all at > http://adb.anu.edu.au/ and  http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies > > I have noticed this sort of thing before - Ancestry.com frequently > advertises access to databases which are freely available elsewhere. > > I find it really annoying that Ancestry charges us to access 'our' electoral > rolls - however they can be accessed > at any Library in Tasmania. > cheers > Sally > > > ------------------------------- > AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ > Contact Admin AUS-Tasmania-Admin@rootsweb.com > Search the Archive (type AUS-Tasmania in the list box) > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-TASMANIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ Contact Admin AUS-Tasmania-Admin@rootsweb.com Search the Archive (type AUS-Tasmania in the list box) http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-TASMANIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message