On 20 Nov 2009 at 18:36, Ian Dunbar wrote: > Hello all, > > How will professional genealogists pass on the results of their > research that includes the 1911 census, if it cannot be sold or > transmitted to anyone else? > > What position does that put the recipient in, knowing that the > information has been illegally transmitted to them? > I was only reporting what I have been told by a Listowner who ticked me off mildly for giving even very limited information from the 1911 census to another lister publicly. The relationship between a professional genealogist who pays a subscription to a website - and usually it's more than one site - and the relationship between a professional and a client involves two separate business arrangements which are private matters and do not involve the data being posted to a public list. As I understand it, it is the requesting and offering of free look-ups and the posting of information publicly that is what most concerns FMP and I know for a fact that they have asked Listowners to discourage it. -- Roy Stockdill Professional 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