The most valuable information on FamilySearch and at the Church genealogy is the census information
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That can still be got elsewhere for no cost, thank goodness...
The mormons charge $5.50 a single microfilm for the rest...
They “own” the info...Its big business for the Morg
Some service...at a price...
Plus they spent $Millions of mormon tithers money going after one little man just because he set up a tiny shop to search familty members..
Some legitimacy there...
Crush the “competition”
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
He might get 10 paying customers we dont get...
Wipe him out...
And you demand that I taker that unAmerican “family research” thingy seriously ???
I can’t believe the way you misrepresent things. If you are ordering a whole microfilm — which can contain hundreds of pages — then $5.50 would probably just cover the cost.
All the stuff on the website, including the census, is free. The Church doesn’t make money on its genealogy work, although it spends a lot of money on it. The library is free.
Yes, the Church tried to protect “Family Search” from a commercial encroachment. So what? They had established the website and spent millions developing it.
Church members have also done millions of hours of free work inputting data from public records, so that others can access it for free. All of the data on ellisislandrecords.org was put into searchable form by Mormon volunteers. Mormon volunteers have been working on inputting other records, like the Freedmen’s Bank, so that other people can search it.
You can snipe all you want, but all it does is reveal your irrational, hateful obsession with putting down Mormons.