With a strict interpretation of the Ancestry and FMP Terms and Conditions then you would never be able to show anyone else any research into your family if it contained any source information because this is likely to be taken from one of these sites. Martin Briscoe Fort William martin@mbriscoe.me.uk -----Original Message----- From: yorksgen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:yorksgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Darryl Wilson Sent: 30 May 2012 07:59 To: yorksgen@rootsweb.com Subject: [YORKSGEN] Personal attacks. I'll submit my penny's worth as well. Rather think that someone has mentioned that Ancestry supplies an email alternative. I know I have used it to email a particular piece of information which I know my co-Aussie hasn't got or seen or with which she has been 'stuck', even though she has a genie subscription. I frequently email a census selection to myself to save me writing it all down.

From: "Martin Briscoe" <martin@mbriscoe.me.uk> > With a strict interpretation of the Ancestry and FMP Terms and > Conditions then you would never be able to show anyone else any research into > your family if it contained any source information because this is likely > to be taken from one of these sites.< I rather doubt they would interpret the terms & conditions that literally, Martin. The clause is there principally to try and prevent people from passing on images to others who don't have a licence/subscription. Are there are lawyers here who are also family historians? I'd be interested to hear the legal viewpoint and I'm sure others would too! The major data providers like Ancestry and FMP are not the only organisations that have such clauses written into the licence. I was deeply involved in the production and publishing of the National Burial Index by the Federation of Family History Societies and it was very clearly written into the licence that no-one was allowed to pass on data from it. There were serious problems with Edition 1 because pirated copies of the CD were being sold on e-Bay, so for the Second Edition we made it so that the master disc had to be in the computer at all times and pirated versions wouldn't work. -- 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