Tessa, dosh is short for Escudos, Portugal's old currency and thus has become slang for money. For Tom, Dock and Harry, read "Joe Sixpack" Oh and "subs" are short for subscriptions, i.e., "dues." To join in the debate with Dick C, I agree that the Guild's own data is something we should largely keep behind a paywall, albeit that derivatives of it can be used for profiles, finding marriage locations and so on. There has to be something worth paying dues for. But for personal study data, we I think find ourselves totally at odds with one another, which is great, because there is no one answer right for everyone. Variety is the spice of life, or as we say over here "Diffrent strokes". Merry Christmas/Hannukah/etc Paul On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Polly Rubery via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Penelope Burton wrote: > >>>There is a good deal of free data > on the 'net, but much has been monetarised behind paywalls. GOONS does > need to consider this aspect as the subs are quite small and if we end > up as a repository of valuable data, then perhaps we should be > extracting a bit of dosh for Tom, Dick and Harry to get access?<< > > The problem here is that we are a charity and those behind paywalls are > commercial companies.... > Polly > > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- Paul Howes www.howesfamilies.com Researching House, Howes, Hows, Howse & Howze worldwide