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Licence sale may mean money doesn't grow on family trees

Brightsolid faces competition as Scottish government prepares to open access to data By Peter John Meiklem

A SCOTTISH web company's plan to use the online sale of family tree information to drive sales could be damaged by government moves to offer licences for the same information to the company's competitors.

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