Reuters reported recently that findmypast.com is putting the entire list of the Titantic's guest list from its final voyage on their website. It is completely free for a week. This should give many genealogists additional help in their constant search for missing family links. Like the Mayflower, the Titantic is and was the ship to be on to prove your family's somebody.
This says something about digitization, does it not? Like the issues surrounding digitizing the national archives in the Library of Congress, the Titantic's passenger list was in desperate need for dissemination, and electronic formating. What I think those who oppose Google's Book search will later see, aiding society is a very trendy thing to do. The massive attempts of BP and Toyota to flash neutral colors of green at society are simply doing the CSR (corporate social responsibility) thing. If these publishing companies wish to keep their heads above water, they may indeed need to embrace digitization and implement a new strategy of marketing based on dual representations of a their product (books, magazines). This is simply inevitable.
R.
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