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  1. %%% What a rude policy from MyHeritage! They lure in users with the promise of free, then suddenly request payment. Very bad business model.
  2. MyHeritage users report email received from MyH: basic membership files to be cut from 500 persons down to 250, effective Aug 1, 2009 %%%
  3. @FamilyTreeMag Congrats on opening the online store! Do you have plans to add an affiliate prog to it? FTMag dig issues could be hot sellers
  4. @genseek #genequiz time easy :) In which country, 1700 had been a leap year? Britain, sure.
  5. Q&A
  6. but then there is an article allowing access to copy series hold by archives
  7. The master series and the copy series are theoretically identical. Private access to even the copy series is per legem is prohibited
  8. only legal agents are entitled to look into the registers. Not one natural person can see even their own records
  9. Whom do state regs belong to and where are they stored? copy series was sent to county archives through 1981
  10. defining state BMD regs from the legal point of view
  11. - only speaking of state regs
  12. Next speaker: Krisztian Szabo of Hungary's Ministry of Justice. Subject: legal aspects of BMD reg research
  13. [my other source told me that Romania has already done the microfilming]
  14. % this is the info for the archives in Iasi
  15. research in Romania: microfilming of BMD regs is underway, and soon after completion they would be available on the internet (at least %
  16. known issues mentioned: some archives create own rules on access, overwriting the country's law, missing volumes in the microfilmed coll
  17. asked to speak about hindrance of BMD research
  18. Death notices of the Hungarian National Archives has been browseable since Jan 2009 - thanks to FS: http://bit.ly/EQmd0
  19. Instead BMD regs they use various other sources, like death notices and yours truly's http://www.radixindex.com :)
  20. Hungary's 30/60/90 yrs access law to BMD regs is a hindrance to probate research (30 yrs death, 60 yrs marr., 90 yrs birth)