tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369519054620493278.post8215866782085743531..comments2023-05-27T16:19:09.069-04:00Comments on Reflections From the Fence: Free, Fee and Professional Researchers, My DefinitionsCarolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11754623831815018924noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369519054620493278.post-37686053719935158992011-03-29T13:02:14.310-04:002011-03-29T13:02:14.310-04:00I have benefited from fee and free researchers, an...I have benefited from fee and free researchers, and I do both. I think I used a professional once, not because I was looking for one but she was the person I found to retrieve the record I needed. <br /><br />I didn't plan to be a fee researcher, just fell into it by doing my own family history. Sharing my research with others, people would ask if I could get a document for them while I was at the Archives and they were willing to pay me to do it. <br /><br />I am well pleased as the receiver and the retriever. Genealogy researchers tend to be good people.LindaRehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12968656842601664293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369519054620493278.post-83757230745278959752011-03-28T22:55:40.206-04:002011-03-28T22:55:40.206-04:00I've paid fees to archives several times but h...I've paid fees to archives several times but have only hired an independent researcher once. I'm not sure if he meets the definition of professional or fee but I was happy with the results. <br /><br />It was a situation where I knew exactly what I needed but the records were large pages in bound volumes so had to be photographed and the archives staff couldn't do that. I got an estimate, agreed to it and had the photos e-mailed to me in a few days. I then paid him using Pay-Pal. <br /><br />These pages were the only thing I needed from the Alabama archives so the fees to that researcher were a very small fraction of what it would have cost me to get them myself.Linda McCauleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08402203453403304529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369519054620493278.post-85574853555050657002011-03-28T19:18:34.016-04:002011-03-28T19:18:34.016-04:00I used a fee researcher once and was very pleased....I used a fee researcher once and was very pleased. Her per-article fee was less than half of the library fee (not that I wanted to deprive the library of money, but I could not afford all the items I wanted at their rates - I did later become a "friend of" (= contributor to) that library). She also gave me some extra information and a lot of good advice in addition to the articles she looked up and copied.Greta Koehlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05429623811794360612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369519054620493278.post-21284934059967892692011-03-28T10:33:21.058-04:002011-03-28T10:33:21.058-04:00I have use fee and free researchers and have been ...I have use fee and free researchers and have been one. It is a leap of faith to send someone money and hope they do what they say they are going to do. Any I have paid for have come up empty handed so I really don't know.Lori Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10775116608698555225noreply@blogger.com