tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627322010786735293.post7147523346389328399..comments2023-10-01T09:35:35.894+02:00Comments on Antipodes: New family-history folkWilliam Skyvingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10052367756561555096noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627322010786735293.post-38677473645896044022011-12-16T10:23:45.974+01:002011-12-16T10:23:45.974+01:00No, the only way of ensuring the strict privacy of...No, the only way of ensuring the strict privacy of family-history stuff is to refrain from publishing it in any way whatsoever… and that would defeat the researcher's basic goals. First, we want to stimulate reactions from fellow-researchers. And second, we want friends and relatives to read the results of our research. As I've often said, the idea of having to pay for subscriptions to a small number of online genealogical companies has never worried me unduly. I myself have never done so, and I don't intend to do so. The people who pay to join such services would probably be incapable of carrying out genealogical research by themselves.<br /><br />By far the most obnoxious financial barriers I've encountered in the family-history domain have been purely Australian: for example, the outrageous price of official BDM certificates in New South Wales, the mercantile "donations" that are expected by certain historical societies in rural towns, or the fees to become a member of certain associations.William Skyvingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10052367756561555096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627322010786735293.post-79387731012536827362011-12-16T09:53:16.333+01:002011-12-16T09:53:16.333+01:00My concern with organisations picking up the data ...My concern with organisations picking up the data from all the hard work people have done on their family history. They then lock it into their own archives and when someone comes along in the future looking for info on a family, the organisation shows snippets of what they've got. Alas when you want to look at the details you have to pay. Is there a way to copyright the info you've spent years collecting so it can't be pilfered by these opportunists?Glennnoreply@blogger.com