Indeed. This is ABSOLUTELY not the first time we’ve dealt with a government agency (at the local, state, or federal levels) providing a copy of a public dataset to Ancestry.com and not to the general public. Our taxpayer-funded data keeps ending up solely behind a $300/year paywall. It’s not fair.
(Also, the stripped-down version of BIRLS that has been on the Ancestry website for a while now is much smaller and older.)
(Also, the stripped-down version of BIRLS that has been on the Ancestry website for a while now is much smaller and older.)