<div>Don, are you sure this isn't a scam, and that the information is available for free via another route?? Can you tell us which "service" on the web charges fees? Seems very strange</div>
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<div>Pete<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 25/07/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Don Williams</b> <<a href="mailto:don@rose963.demon.co.uk">don@rose963.demon.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi there, have any GLLUG members come across the monstrous rip-off being<br>exacted by the "keepers of others' data" - the family connection website
<br>and those lovely so-truly-blairite-they-smell-of-it people selling off<br>our data?<br> Go seek your family history on the web. Discover, as did I, that you<br>will need a "voucher" to access our own national records. Read that the
<br>message from the government's lackeys is that the vouchers (@ £5 a nob)<br>are available at Post Offices.<br> Nope. An afternoon queueing in and traipsing between South London Post<br>Offices affirmed that that was yet another privatising lie.
<br> Card to the ready, we begrudgingly bought a fiver's worth of "voucher"<br>on the website - the Blairite caption talking of "500 credits" and<br>"small charges" (stop laughing, you lot!).
<br> Five hours later we two pensioners retired from the field, angry,<br>tired, a tenner lighter and with not much more data than when we<br>started.<br> So there goes yet another middle-class shutdown of the fruit of
<br>Victorian labours.<br> I don't care about our history now. I can't afford to any more because<br>they privatised it.<br> Will no-one stop these evil, grasping, tiny-minded children of<br>Thatcher?<br>
Don Williams<br><br><br>--<br>Gllug mailing list - <a href="mailto:Gllug@gllug.org.uk">Gllug@gllug.org.uk</a><br><a href="http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug">http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
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