Ancestry/Genealogy

because it was too expensive. They offer free access every time an index is finished and added, no doubt to attract subscribers when the free trial is over.

It irks me, too, that these indexes have been handed over to these huge companies. Here, in Canada, we weren't allowed to voluntarily transcribe certain years because they'd already been taken over by Family Search ... and then lo and behold wound up in the hands of Ancestry, despite the excellent quality of the transcriptions and double-proofing of every single entry of those we'd already completed ... which included many years and every individual recorded in Canada. It was very disappointing to be told we wouldn't have access to the latest available Canadian records to transcribe further - and now to have to pay to see them. So, I do take advantage of the freebies, but you're exactly right.