So said the pot, to the kettle. On May 29, 2012, at 1:03 PM, roy.stockdill@btinternet.com wrote: > I get a little tired of these occasional personal attacks on me.

From: Steve Swales <steve@swales.us> > So said the pot, to the kettle. > > On May 29, 2012, at 1:03 PM, roy.stockdill@btinternet.com wrote: > > I get a little tired of these occasional personal attacks on > me.> I suggest you look up my personal record of helping others over a good many years on numerous lists in the Rootsweb archives - I suspect it is rather more substantial than yours, as I've never heard of you whereas I imagine most people have heard of me. The FACTS are as I have stated and I doubt anyone can legally argue with them. Asking for someone to send you census information and images using a third party's subscription is, quite simply, inviting them to commit a breach of the licence they take out with any data provider, be it Ancestry, Findmypast, TheGenealogist, etc, or any family history society or commercial provider. To give an example, I own a considerable number of CDs with parish register information from a certain firm not a million miles removed from yorkshireancestors.com. If I offered to send people data from these discs I suspect a certain person or two would be rather cross with me! There seems to be a widespread myth that all genealogical data should be free. It isn't and some people must get used to this idea. Hobbies are not free, they cost money. Books, fiche, CDs, subscriptions to websites etc, are all part of the expense of being a family historian. In any event, I would point out that if you can't afford a full subscrption to Ancestry, Findmypast etc, you can always purchase pay-per-view units purely for a particular search. Indeed, I do this with Ancestry when I'm researching in London. For an outlay of only £6.95 I can get up to a dozen marriage certificates from their London Metropolitan Archives website, saving many pounds on what I would be paying the GRO at £9.25 a time. This is how to do it, be clever - not ask others to do your research for you. -- 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