Subj : Re: English/American One-Name Studies, 1500-1700
To   : All
From : P J Evans
Date : Thu Sep 06 2018 05:57 pm

From: P J Evans <pj.evans88@gmail.com>

On Friday, September 7, 2018 at 2:31:29 AM UTC-7, Ian Goddard wrote:
> On 06/09/18 13:10, P J Evans wrote:
> > 
> > I don't know about non-US users, but FamilySearch, while still free, now
requires that you sign up for an account. (I have yet to do so, because some of
 the information they want is past my personal-information release limit.)
> > 
> 
> The standard approach to such pointless demands for accounts is to make 
> up a name and anything else they want.  I took this up with them and got 
> a nonsense reply.  In return they have a nonsense account.
> 
> I really don't know why people do these things, especially in these days 
> of GDPR.
> 
> Ian

Name, not a problem. Age, okay (they don't want minors signing up). Birthdate:
nope, they don't need that. Gender - they don't actually need that, either. (I
was also thinking they need a box for "other".)
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