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Sharing Certificates

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Kim

Kim Report 29 Oct 2006 15:46

Arewerelated ?site has a board for cert details I think Kim

Her Indoors

Her Indoors Report 29 Oct 2006 13:51

OC, I don't think that I am breaching Crown Copyright. The GRO site says: 'The material featured on this website is subject to Crown copyright protection unless otherwise indicated. The Crown copyright protected material (other than the Royal Arms and departmental or agency logos) may be re-used free of charge in any format or medium for research for non-commercial purposes, private study or for internal circulation within an organisation. This is subject to the material being re-used accurately and not used in a misleading context. Where any of the Crown copyright material on this website is being republished or copied to others, the source of the material must be identified and the copyright status acknowledged.' The certificate is reproduced 'as is' including the reference to (and therefore acknowlegement of) Crown Copyright. I seriously doubt that anyone cares, anyway, particularly as you have to say 'pretty please' to get the visitor password to my Tribalpages site in the first place. For what it's worth, any request from GRO, or the thought police, would be invariably refused, except on payment of the prescribed fee (currently £1,000,000, but free to actual relatives not trying to make a fast buck out of selling flimsy and badly printed certificates for £7 a time).

An Olde Crone

An Olde Crone Report 29 Oct 2006 12:30

Clive Yes, technically you are infringing copyright. However, TP is an American site and I doubt if THEY care. I also doubt if the GRO are prowling the net looking for pirated copies of their certs! There was, I am sure, a Site specifically for sharing certs but I cannot remember the addy - lost all my favourites when my old computer had a coronary. OC

Her Indoors

Her Indoors Report 29 Oct 2006 10:49

I have been playing around with an idea I had to share my modest collection of BMD certificates. I have an online tree on Tribalpages, and it can host photographs (of which I have hardly any). I have found that it can host scanned images of certificates instead, which are arguably more interesting, and have uploaded several relating to my ancestors. I expect someone will shout at me for possible copyright infringement (am I worried?), but that apart, it seemed a good idea. I took the most modest size option (800x800 max) which leaves the image perfectly legible, but quite small - room for plenty of others.