In message of 1 Dec, <bill@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> All
>
> I believe like everone else says ... that information is for sharing BUT
> what I am against is using freely given information and then charging
for it
> ! to some unsuspecting individuals....
>
> Any info I have on my site which I don't want "nicked" is encrypted
using
> Taglock pro software at http://www.tagslock.com/
>
> It doesn't stop anyone "reading" it but doesn't allow stealing it !
Now for a different point of view.
In the nineteenth century there was a relation who did a massive amount
of family genealogy. I have seen some of his record books, of the
genealogy of his customers - he was a family solicitor - and they are
impressively done.
But all his records for our family are lost, no-one has heard of them,
though I have grounds for suspecting they got to Canada from England.
Perhaps there was some valuable early do***ents within his collection?
Several of our family have done a load more genealogy since then. Until
me, it was all on paper and I wonder what would happen to this? Most
public archives just won't acept it these days as they have nowhere to
put it and noone to catalogue it.
It is for this reason that I have put as much as I can on the internet.
I hope it won't be lost. Anyone can copy it, anyone can use it. That
way I am hoping that all our researches will survive at least for a few
generations, until the next family history freak in the family does a
better job.
--
Tim Powys-Lybbe tim@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/
