> They must be pretty desperate. All people with subscriptions to The > Times online are being offered a free full year subscription to > FindMyPast! >Ah, but which of them is desperate - the newspaper in a declining market or > >the genealogy company in a growing market? >Peter The simple answer to that one is the question "Who's bearing the cost of the free subscriptions ?" I don't think it's likely to be the 'Thunderer'. The genealogy market may be growing, but FMP is a continuing disaster and must be losing share pretty rapidly. John B