I wholeheartedly agree with the thoughts expressed below. Greg Cooper On 8 August 2010 08:00, <eng-worcester-request@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Bushley registers (Alan) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 19:54:23 +0100 > From: "Alan" <spellweaver@tinyworld.co.uk> > Subject: [WOR] Bushley registers > To: <ENG-WORCESTER@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <FF137CAB6A484F49AD8510FF2119328F@AlanPC> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Just a quick note to let the list know that if anyone requires look ups in > Bushley, I have a CD of some of the parish registers. > I thought these sites were all about a mutual interest in genealogy, and > not an opportunity to take a dig at the various on line providers. I'm > eternally grateful to the people who have helped me in my research (Thanks > Gus, for your help) and I'd be delighted if I could find a long lost > relative or two, or help out someone else. > Angela > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the ENG-WORCESTER list administrator, send an email to > ENG-WORCESTER-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the ENG-WORCESTER mailing list, send an email to > ENG-WORCESTER@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-WORCESTER-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of ENG-WORCESTER Digest, Vol 5, Issue 87 > ******************************************** >

On 8 Aug 2010 at 11:02, GREG COOPER wrote: > I wholeheartedly agree with the thoughts expressed below. > > Greg Cooper > > On 8 August 2010 08:00, <eng-worcester-request@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 19:54:23 +0100 > > From: "Alan" <spellweaver@tinyworld.co.uk> > > Subject: [WOR] Bushley registers > > To: <ENG-WORCESTER@rootsweb.com> > > Message-ID: <FF137CAB6A484F49AD8510FF2119328F@AlanPC> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > Just a quick note to let the list know that if anyone requires look > > ups in Bushley, I have a CD of some of the parish registers. I > > thought these sites were all about a mutual interest in genealogy, > > and not an opportunity to take a dig at the various on line > > providers. I'm eternally grateful to the people who have helped me > > in my research (Thanks Gus, for your help) and I'd be delighted if I > > could find a long lost relative or two, or help out someone else. > > Angela < < Believe me, I have no wish to start another controversy but I feel obliged to point out - with the greatest possible respect - that offering wholesale look-ups, whether from a CD, online websites to which one has a subscription, books, fiche or any other form of media is, almost certainly in all cases, a breach of the licence one agrees to when you purchase the data in question. This is not my opinion, it is a FACT of legality. Service providers object to the offering of look-ups from their products and I can see their point. They invest a lot of money in getting the data transcribed and indexed and lose income when people offer look-ups This is especially relevant when the provider is a family history society, since in the ever-burgeoning world of the internet FHSs are suffering at the moment with dwindling numbers and declining income. And we urgently need to keep them alive! Doing the odd look-up quietly is one thing. Offering them willy nilly en masse is quite another. I have stacks of parish registers, census returns etc on CD and they ALL stipulate that when you buy the product it is strictly for your own private research only. The Federation of Family History Societies, for instance, specifically forbids the offering of look-ups from the NBI and I happen to know, because I was involved with the FFHS a while back, that they have pursued people breaching the licence terms. While I agree totally that genealogy is about helping people, especially beginners, I do suggest we ought to be careful about precisely how far we go in possibly illegal action. You may blithely think "Oh, it doesn't matter, nobody will bother" but I suspect the time might come when the big commercial providers may decide that it does matter, in the same way that music download providers have pursued the internet pirates supplying illegal downloads. The world of legal licence terms and conditions relating to any commodity, whether it's genealogical data or otherwise, is a complex one and I would simply advise caution in advertising a willingness to do look-ups. My apologies to the Administrator for raising this but I do believe it's an important issue we would all do well to bear in mind. -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE