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From: "Liz" <>
Subject: Re: [B&S] New information to be made available
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 10:18:13 +0100
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Sounds a bit odd to me. The government certainly doesn't hold all the
parish records, many of them were lost and illegible. Churches burnt
down with the records. I've certainly been able to access the same
information that was available to the celebrities, it takes a little
longer but their information has already been checked by the producers
in advance of the programme. Not many of those celebs had more than 4
or 5 generations and the majority of us can do that quite easily.
Cheers
LIZ
www.btinternet.com/~e.newbery


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Gould" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 10:02 AM
Subject: [B&S] New information to be made available


>
> Viewers of the UK television programme "Who Do You Think You Are ?"
> may have
> been surprised at the way in which the celebrities were able to go
> into a
> Record Office and come out with the birth, marriage and death
> certificates
> of their ancestors, especially as it takes the rest of us months or
> even
> years to do the same thing. Now under the Freedom of Information Act,
> it
> has been revealed that the government holds family trees for the whole
> of
> the UK population. The BBC had negotiated access to this information,
> but
> after details of this leaked out, it became apparent that we all have
> a
> right to this information.


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