Did you do this photographing etc for love? When you do this, do you ever consider the time that it takes for you to do it? What would you pay somebody, a professional, to do the same thing? You don't get owt for nowt! I, for one, don't mind paying a fee - but I bet that it's only a fraction of the true cost taking everything into consideration. Phil On 29/1/09 12:44, "mike john" <[email protected]> wrote: > I have just purchased 9 pages from a newpaper, they cost 90p each, I will > now upload them to my website which cost nothing. I have also photographed > practically every parish record in Monmouthshire, fantastic images over > 300,000 of them, cost me just my bus fair to the records offices. I have > also photographed all the Tithe apportionments for the whole of > Monmouthshire, cost nothing. plus several hundred thousand other documents > > Mike > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Anton Mcloughlin" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 11:06 AM > Subject: Re: [ENG-WILTSHIRE] Cost of Wilts Wills online defended > > > When the Wills Project site first came on line i had excellent and very > fast service from the Wilts Archives who photocopied and posted many > wills and associated documents to me by return of post. > > This project is really a flagship one and a tremendous help to > researchers...it really helped me with mine as i got two wills late 17thC. > > As wills are so hard to locate from a distance, and sometimes even in a > record office, it is so unusual to find such a comprehensive indexing > project. > > Considering that the Borthwick Institute has the wills for the whole of > the North of England and they chare £10 for paper copies and take up to > 28 days to send them. Wiltshire Archives are very realistic at £5 for an > instant copy or less for a posted paper copy. > > Considering the potential leads in wills £5 is a reasonable price to pay > for an instant download. > > The revenue will undoubtably be put to good use enabling more records to > go online. > > Admittadly there are some digitisation projects that are free...the most > notable is the Medway Ark project which has all the OPRs and more for free. > > But the more that goes on line the better for all. > > Anton >> >> > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.15/1923 - Release Date: 29/01/2009 > 07:13 > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >