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From: "Gordon W Evans" <>
Subject: Re: [ENG-LIV] BMD indexes
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 12:39:12 -0000
References: <001c01c4eda8$24128a60$66372ad9@btinternet.com> <1925DC18-59B6-11D9-9B6F-000A959F1076@cogeco.ca> <6994AF5E-5D37-11D9-93A5-000A959F1076@cogeco.ca> <003801c4f15f$202a0b70$134438d2@BARBARA> <001001c4f179$26e5fcc0$6400a8c0@Notebook> <000b01c4f17a$f38c9f80$c1242bd9@oemcomputer> <000a01c4f180$3db35f90$6400a8c0@Notebook>


So my initial assumption was correct, then. :-)
Faced with the choice of transcribing for a site which is freely available
to all & one which charges for access but crosses the transcriber's palm
with "freebies", one plumps for the latter.
No problem. Like everyone else I'm extremely grateful to all volunteer
transcribers everywhere, whatever their motive. But I personally will NEVER
subscribe
to a pay-per-view site which has effectively poached
potential transcribers away from a free-access site by pandering to the
human weakness for "something for nothing".

(No offence intended, Vern, I promise you.)

Regards
Gordon Evans

>I have two reasons for transcribing.
>1. By transcribing one piece, you get FREE access forever to that >year's
>census for that county. For example, transcribe one piece of of the
>Lancashire 1861 and you get access to the Lancashire 1861.
>2. By transcribing, you help fellow genealogists with their research.
>That
>is why I decided to do a second piece, even though there was >"nothing in
it
>for me".
>Vern in Ontario

>Forgive me if it's a naive question, but why should anyone volunteer to
>transcribe for a fee-charging site rather than for Free BMD?


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