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From: "Anne Cole" <>
Subject: Re: [CHS] Cheshire Record Office online at FMP
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 09:51:57 +0100
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Very good news, for those that can afford to subscribe!

As a contributor, via the Lincs FHS, to FMP, I wish them luck!

Anne

Anne Cole, President, Lincolnshire Family History Society

Duncalf(e)/Duncuff/Duncuft One-name Study GOONS member 513

http://www.one-name.org/profiles/duncalf.html

Lincolnshire Post 1837 Marriage Index

http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/

Lincolnshire Family History Society

http://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk


> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Shepherd [mailto:]
> Sent: 28 August 2011 09:44
> To: ;
> Subject: RE: [CHS] Cheshire Record Office online at FMP
>
>
> Perhaps the following will clarify the situation:
>
> 'Cheshire West and Chester Council, acting on behalf of Cheshire Archives
> and
> Local Studies, which is part of Cheshire Shared Services, conducted a
> procurement
> exercise to find a commercial partner to host online images and index data
> which
> the service holds. Following the successful conclusion of this exercise,
> the authority
> has licensed Brightsolid Online Publishing (which trades as FindMyPast) to
> host the
> images and index data of the following classes of records held in the
> archives:
> . Bishops transcripts
> . Parish registers
> . Land tax records
> . Roman Catholic registers
> . Non-conformist registers
> . Electoral registers
> . Chester wills and probate records
> . Marriage licence bonds
> . Workhouse registers
> The licence came into force on 7 April 2011, and is for a term of 5 years,
> with the
> potential to extend the agreement from year to year to a maximum of 10
> years. The
> licence requires the service to be available within 6 months, i.e. 7
> October 2011.
> The images will be available on a pay-per-view or subscription basis.
> The publisher will pay a royalty to the service based on the number of
> page views. We
> take the view that the level of those royalties and of the upfront payment
> is exempt
> information under s43.2 of the Freedom of Information Act. This specifies
> that "information is exempt information if its disclosure under this Act
> would, or would
> be likely to, prejudice the commercial interests of any person (including
> the Public
> Authority holding it)". In this case the publisher is actively engaged in
> negotiations with
> other archive services, which might be prejudiced by disclosure. The
> Council
> considers therefore that the public interest in withholding the
> information outweighs the
> public interest in disclosing it at the present time.'
>
> Shep (about to renew his FMP subscription!)
>
>
>

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