Yes - those are good points; I particularly get the notion of how much it costs to digitize the documents in the first place and maintain the site etc. And you're right about it being something on the order of Ancestry.com. I think my hackles rose because it seemed to be purporting to be something rather more than that. But, there ARE quite a lot of free documents available, and the quality of the viewer is quite good - so maybe it's less problematic than I thought. That's why I asked :)