At first it seemed like a good idea - making people think about genealogy, thinking about their ancestors, etc. But now it just seems like a shop front for businesses who want to profit out of peoples interest - driving that curiosity in a typical commercial fashion. I don't like 'the package'. Of course it's always gone on with professional genealogists and some charlatans amongst them - telling people what they want to hear, etc. Should all information be free? Well, maybe not. Maybe that would make things too easy, but this 'corporate' atmosphere lately, with Tony Robinson's face being synonymous with family history, it all kinda spoils things. Maybe you prefer the new regime?
My personal research is mostly done and I'm as sure as hell glad that the churches my ancestors belonged to let people like the LDS film or scan their records instead of waiting for people to come along wanting to compile it into spreadsheets to sell to keep clubs going.
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