Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #noFishingAllowed
Most recents (1)
This is outrageous and basically fucks any amateur historian trying to do stuff like, say, WW1 survivor research that isn't about one particular person in their family.
I have zero problem with paying a subscription to services that provide access to records and do the legwork of digitising.
I pay for a whole bunch - from ancestor searches, to war record stuff, to newspaper archives.
I pay for a whole bunch - from ancestor searches, to war record stuff, to newspaper archives.
I pay that, for 12 months every year, when in reality I'm not doing searches every single day. And I don't MIND that, because implicit in it is an expectation that what my money is going towards is FUTURE digitisation.
You don't get to charge me twice for that.
You don't get to charge me twice for that.
