Subj : Re: English/American One-Name Studies, 1500-1700
To   : All
From : joecook@gmail.com
Date : Thu Sep 06 2018 06:45 pm

From: joecook@gmail.com

On Friday, September 7, 2018 at 5:31:29 AM UTC-4, 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, no=
w requires that you sign up for an account. (I have yet to do so, because s=
ome of the information they want is past my personal-information release li=
mit.)
> > 
> 
> 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.

The demand, from familysearch.org, is not 'pointless' from their point of v=
iew.   Some of the people who grant permission for their records to be used=
 by familysearch.org were reluctant to allow them to just be 'freely out on=
 the web', but were appeased with a promise that only 'members' of the webs=
ite could access it after logging in.

The difference is so small to be essentially zero to anyone familiar with t=
he internet and computers.   To some 85 year old priest in a village in Ita=
ly apparently these guarantees are impactful.

---Joe C

--Joe C
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