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From: Andrew Hingston <>
Subject: Re: FreeBMD
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:02:56 +0100


> >> ...... the UK govt. is inviting 'not for profit' organisations to make
> >proposals to put historic registration data on-line.
> >
> > Could we have a bit more on this - ?
>
>This is contained in the Civil Registration White Paper.

The official summary says:

'Historic records are those relating to people born over 100 years ago.
These should be made fully available to the public. The Government would
support not-for-profit organisation(s) investing in introducing electronic
access to these records. This would be of great value particularly to the
genealogical community. '

The full text is at
<http://www.statistics.gov.uk/registration/whitepaper/proposals.asp>;

Many people are disappointed at the 100 year cut-off, but it would relax
the access to death records, for example. It has to be emphasised that
these are proposals and depend on changes to the law.

Andrew Hingston

<http://www.amhinja.demon.co.uk>;


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