Should research be free?
There are quite a number of questions on whether we should expect genealogy information to be free, for what its worth, I purchase the Ancestry subscription, I use it regularly, and therefore can have no complaints about its cost, yes I like free sites, but they cannot conceiveably do everything. The cost of putting together indexes and putting up images, etc is just not feasible unless you charge for it, or unless you have thousands of volunteers.
My view is that it probably could be free as long as you were willing to do some field work. That is the user who wants it the information should have to transcribe at least 10 records before getting access. Anyway enough of my ranting, there is a good article here at about
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