You're not he only ratepayer, you know. Your council tax covers all sorts of services that aren't paid for at source. Perhaps I should pay so much a day to send my child to school, pay per book when I use the library lending service? Give the refuse collectors £2 per bin collected? Where does it stop? A camera may be able to store 4000 images, but I can't photograph that many in a day, and staff time isn't taken up by requesting photocopies. I am on a budget, and I already pay council tax. Council tax payers are overburdened due to empire-building and waste, not because I want to photograph a few records in my spare time. Incidentally, to use the service, I have to take time off work, so that is already costing me money in addition to travelling costs. At 21:18 09/04/2007, you wrote: >Why as an already overburdened rate payer why in heavens name should I >be asked to contribute for all sundry itinerant genealogist who are not >prepared to contribute towards the local storage of the archives, the >staff to man the office dealing with you and your queries on a regular >basis, answer your phone calls and the loss of income from the use of >digital cameras.( i.e photo copies) > >A digital camera can store up to some 4000 images. At £2.00 are getting >good value to photograph the records you want in warm comfortable quiet >surroundings. >Stop belly aching. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: monmouthshire-bounces@rootsweb.com >[mailto:monmouthshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Jean Smith >Sent: 09 April 2007 20:03 >To: monmouthshire@rootsweb.com >Subject: [MON] more charges > >What's with these councils and record offices >suddenly deciding that family history researchers >are a cash cow? Hot on the heels of Gwent RO >charging £2 a go to use your own resources >(digital camera), now comes Blaenau Gwent >charging £10 to search the municipal cemetery records! > >They're not providing much, if anything, for this >charge either - is it even legal? > >Those of us with ancestors all round the country >will soon find they have to abandon their hobby >as costs escalate if this carries on. > >IMHO, we shouldn't encourage the various bodies, >but campaign to get these charges reversed - the >admin alone will wipe out all any extra value, if >that's their argument. Put a donations box in, >but for goodness sake don't let's encourage >statutory bodies to think these charges are >acceptable - it's just making jobs for councils >etc, not giving us a better service. > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >MONMOUTHSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com 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 Free Edition. >Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.26/746 - Release Date: >04/04/2007 13:09 > > >-- >No virus found in this outgoing message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.26/746 - Release Date: >04/04/2007 13:09 > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an >email to MONMOUTHSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com 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 Free Edition. >Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.0.0/752 - >Release Date: 08/04/2007 20:34

This is not a topic for this list - at least not the way it is shaping up so as List Admin I am saying that this topic is closed. Please do NOT send your resons for disgagreeing to the list, you can send them to me personally. I will read them. Ann Macey List Admin

My apologies to you and the List Ann, I read the reply made to the List before I read your mail to the List regarding the closure of this topic. Regards, Michael McAllister ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann Macey" <annmacey@ntlworld.com> To: <monmouthshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 11:10 PM Subject: Re: [MON] more charges-topic closed > This is not a topic for this list - at least not the way it is shaping up > so as List Admin I am saying that this topic is closed. Please do NOT send > your resons for disgagreeing to the list, you can send them to me > personally. I will read them. > > Ann Macey > List Admin > >