What are the alternative sources for this information which are already open to the public please? Chris We should respect the rights to privacy of all, especially those who are not nosey genealogists and family historians :)) The information is, in any case, available from other sources which are already open to the public.

Graham I think Firebird refers to documents held in the local and National Archives....one takes a pen and paper in and methodically trawls through all the parish registers to draw up the trees, then move on to Electoral rolls, Trade directories and other 20thC material in the public domain. Fine for the very very small percentage of researchers who live near to not only their local archives but also to London, and have enough time on their hands to do it the oldfashioned way. But the majority world wide have to use either the limited LDS filming or the Internet and the kindness of volunteers in the mailing lists and the transcribers in family history societies and other projects. But there is no single source so valuable as a census return as it is a snapshot of the family and life every 10 years. Previously folks had to labour hard to get to a 1901 family unit as not everyone is fortunate to have elderly living relatives who remember all the folks from their childhood and the tales their grannies told them.....the release of the 1911 census bridges the all important gap between today and yesteryear and answers many questions that relatives may have not remembered....but in England & Wales it is at a great price that is not really neccessary in the long term view. FMP missed the boat spectaculary with all previous census data and are still playing catchup to get all counties on their site upto and including 1901....sites like ancestry coined it in at their expense and scotlandspeople just did it the right way from Day one and never looked back.....so i guess the high prices for 1911 and the monopoly exercised initially by FMP is retribution whereby we have to pay for their past errors. But it has been worth it as it has opened up a lot of lines and answered a lot of open questions for my research. BTW do not bleat about paying a researcher...i did that once to get some crucial docs out of Kew and they sent me totally wrong ones eventhough i had pinpointed the darn boxes in which to look in....they got a flea in their ear and were sent back at their own cost and 2nd time around produced the correct documents.....kindof put me off paying other when i just bide my time til the opportunity arises to make a personal visit to Kew and other archives... Happy New Year to all -------- Original Message -------- > What are the alternative sources for this information which are already open > to the public please? > > Chris > > We should respect the rights to privacy of all, especially those who > are not nosey genealogists and family historians :)) The information > is, in any case, available from other sources which are already open > to the public. > > REMEMBER - The question you are asking may have already been answered. > Threaded Archives at - > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS/Archives > > Searchable Archives at - > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > E-mail message checked by Internet Security (6.0.0.386) > Database version: 5.11420 > http://www.pctools.com/uk/internet-security/ > > E-mail message checked by Internet Security (6.0.0.386) Database version: 5.11420 http://www.pctools.com/uk/internet-security/