I have been involved in Family history for about twenty years now, and have been on the family history circuit attending various fairs around the country for about twelve years.
In my time on the circuit, I have met lots of stall holders, some are ‘fly by nights’ who think you can shove anything onto a CD, flog it, make a pile of cash and then disappear, (they never last long, thankfully) some are genuine folk who really want to help people trace their ancestry, and then we have the ‘big boys’ or those that intend to be one of the big boys.’
The ‘fly by nights’ have been known to pirate information, (census records, parish transcriptions, etc.,) or download free information from the Internet, copy it to a CD, put a pretty picture on the front and View the rest of this article
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