Ancestry.com is suing the National Records of Scotland (NRS) to hand over Scottish family records
NRS refuses to enter into an agreement with Ancestry.com, saying it would lose 3.7 million pounds in revenue if the records became available on the website
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This isn't about opening records for the public.
It's about Ancestry, the company, increasing its data pool and training AI systems.
Fuck ancestry! When they started charging people to access the very data that they 'allowed' them to enter free, they lost all credibility in my eyes.
It makes doing anything a pain. I’m lucky enough to have access to ancestry access at my local library but I despise their company and practices. Their prices are insane and they lock people out of this hobby.
I personally prefer archives to offer access to records for free (like most of the church archives do in Austria), but I'd rather see an archive charge a small fee for the access than Ancestry.com fucking that archive over.