Dear all,
Many thanks to all those who responded to my request for information on
Ancestry.co.uk subscriptions. It appears that several places around the
country do now provide this service for their users, and many more are
considering doing so (without naming names).
The legal way to do this is to subscribe to the Ancestry Library edition
available through Proquest (www.proquest.co.uk). Subscription in this way is
based on population of your local area, so a county wide subscription
available in every local library is based on the total population of the
county, whereas a single site licence for a single office is based on the
population of the town or borough, etc. The authority/county wide
subscription works off a base figure of $0.021 per head of population whereas
the town wide subscription works from the base figure of $0.030 per head of
population. Obviously, you have to then convert the dollars amount to get
your figure.
Those others of you who are thinking about subscribing to Ancestry, you can
contact Proquest who will give you a quote and a trial. Unfortunately, the
result of this for us is that we won't be subscribing due to the level of
cost involved, but we do now have an answer for our customers who ask about
it!
Hope this all makes sense
Thanks again
Laura
Laura Robertson
Archives and Local Studies Manager (Senior Archivist)
Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies
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Buckinghamshire
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