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From: "Pam Downes" <>
Subject: Re: Backdoor to Ancestry
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 08:52:31 +0100
References: <4153CBD7.1020407@omninet.net.au>


I think you mean the Gale site, and if so, the link to Ancestry is no longer
there. You can often get a 14-day free trial to Ancestry. Try
www.ancestry.com (US version) or www.ancestry.co.uk (UK version). As far as
I know, you get the same information on both sites - just presented slightly
differently.

Incidentally, as regards the Gale site, and should you ever see a similar
'offer', you might like to know about this message posted to the Norfolk
mailing list :
>>>>From the Yorkshire mailing list:
>>The problem is the publishing of the password was a breach of trust and
should never have appeared on any mailing list.

The trail was for a specific library to evaluate the database, not a
public free trail, publishing such passwords often results in the
library losing their access to a resource they have paid for.

It should also be noted that publishing such passwords on a mailing list
could result in the listowner/admin and rootsweb being sued for breach
licence & or copyright offences and is a violation of rootsweb's
Acceptable Use Policy.

Such theft, for that is what it is, does not help genealogists in the
long term as we have seen from the National Archives 1901 site and more
recently the NBI cds, etc. <<<<

Pam Downes
I use http://www.archivecdbooks.org in my research





----- Original Message -----
From: "Gypsy" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 8:25 AM
Subject: Backdoor to Ancestry


> Hi
>
> Some time back, someone posted a site that eventually
> let you into Ancestry (from a roundabout way) using a
> username and pwd that they also supplied
>
> Did anyone keep a note of the site please?
>
> Cheers
> Gypsy
>
>

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