Genealogy Chat

I run a similar website, which allows you to add your Ancestral Addresses (Ancestors’ former homes). Address is: www.ukancestor(.)co(.)uk It is totally free and is a non-commercial website - I run it as a hobby. So that this remains a tip :-), here are a couple of other similar sites that may be of interest (I have no connection to these): www.myoldhouse(.)co(.)uk www.neighboursreunite(.)co(.)uk Dan.

I wonder what problems there might be in setting up a DIY free-to-view database of scanned images of birth, marriage and death certificates that we have all collected? Just a thought. J.

Hi J, Copyright laws would prevent you from setting up such a database. Dan.

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I don't like to ask, but how on earth does any site cope with changes in street names, changes in property names, changes in street numbering, not to mention the vast numbers of roads - in London at least - that all had the same name? It might work if the contributor could provide a grid reference, but I doubt whether that would be accurate enough. Most of my rural ancestors lived in properties that have long since rotted away and have been demolished.

Dan, you seem to be well up on this. I imagined that copyright was the most likely restriction, but don't copyright laws also apply to census and bmd registration information? J.

Abbess: I can only speak for my own site. I allow members to add the street names etc. themselves, so that they are not restricted by modern boundaries etc. I know what you mean though - one problem I have noticed is that several towns have been duplicated under both Middlesex and London (e.g. Shoreditch). J: Sites that publish census images etc. will have obtained permission to do so.