I think the issue of being "logged in" is rather more important on Findmypast now than this newsletter states - I've noticed in the last couple of days that if you do a search on FMP when you are logged out, it won't let you view the results until you log in. Funnily enough, this was something I suggested to them a few years ago, though I only suggested it should apply to the 1939 Register, because of the fact that search engine bots (or other bots) could collect data without logging in. I wonder whether search engine bots are the reason for the recent change? They certainly never acknowledged it was a problem when I asked them about it at that time.
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