Hmmmmm....that's odd; I didn't have to join up or pay a thing.
I wonder what that's all about?
Sorry you had a bad experience with them.
DFM
----- Original Message -----
From: "Langdon" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 9:38 AM
Subject: Re: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/
> I've had major billing problems with New Oxford, [Oxford Press] to the
> point that I thought a fraudulent company had been set up. I got billed
> again this morning, after cancelling this subscription I didn't know I
> had. The cost is $30 per month. I've had to file a complaint with the NC
> Attorney General.
>
> The National Archives is the best site. Searching is free and you can
> download documents instantly for a reasonable price, and great quality.
> All of Britain's county archives have a common search. Why pay for
> Ancestry's spotty records, when the Archives and British Library are
> on-line?
>
> These are free:
>
> http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline
>
> The Brirish Library:
> http://www.bl.uk/index.shtml
>
> This site is good for beginning research, learning about locations and
> types of records:
> http://www.genuki.org.uk/index.html
>
> Scotland's records can e accessed at:
> http://www.scan.org.uk/index.html
>
> Langdon Hagen-Long
>
>
> John Frederick Fausz <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Another INVALUABLE online
> resource--with a fee, however--is the
> NEW OXFORD DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY (British Bios).
>
> It offers very detailed and almost always reliable biographies of the
> leading Jamestown / Virginia Company "folks"--plus Powhatan,
> Pocahontas, and Opechancanough--written by scholars and based
> on the most recent research. <one, however, because the British author is
> clueless and confusing
> about Early Chesapeake Indian Place Names.
>
> HTTP://WWW.OXFORDDNB.COM/
>
> Most entries are only 4-5 years old and replace bios dating back to the
> late 19th century--or deal with people, especially Americans and Indians,
> who were little appreciated in that bygone era.
>
> 55,000 bios up to the late 20th on people of all fields--and a bargain
> online
> unless you don't mind spending something like $16,000 for the 88 volume
> hardbound set!!
>
> * * * And don't overlook our own state treasure--the terrific new
> DICTIONARY OF VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY from the Library of Virginia
>
> Best to All from the Frozen Midlands (Far Western Virginia)
>
> Fred Fausz
> St. Louis
>
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