tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8761645369542855703.post851820997845247050..comments2023-12-06T08:42:21.642+00:00Comments on British & Irish Genealogy: Something for the Weekend 14HistoryMickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00516020259231967938noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8761645369542855703.post-59194854395828654812012-09-02T16:17:18.984+01:002012-09-02T16:17:18.984+01:00Mike makes some very telling points. But one thing...Mike makes some very telling points. But one thing he misses is that while the big commercial operators can do things faster and on a bigger scale, the results they provide are not always of a better quality. There is still - I think - a fair-sized niche where an FHS can provide something that is sufficiently better than Ancestry that it merits buying.<br /><br />The other great issue with FHSes is that the traditional model creates a two-tier membership. The local members get meetings, presentations, a library, opportunities to get together. The non-local members get a journal and (if the FHS is up to it) some material out of a website. The gap is simply too big, and very often any attempts to close it are stymied by the local members who are afraid that they will lose out.<br /><br />I write as a FHS member (I'm in the Channel Islands, where the situation is a little different but many of the issues are similar).Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09194881271051758232noreply@blogger.com