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From: "John Henley" <>
Subject: Re: 1891 census
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 14:29:43 -0000


Lesley Robertson wrote
>In this context, has anyone any idea why the GRO(not S) hasn't just
>recruited the Origins people to handle the English/Welsh records instead of
>re-inventing the wheel by designing another system which will have to go
>through the bugs/overload/server down cycle?
Hi Lesley
What an excellent idea - I suppose they tendered and were not cheap enough.
Perhaps someone will enlighten us?

Cheers

John Henley
researching
HENLEY, PARKER, PRENTICE, SECKER, RAPER, DURDEN
[London/Middx./Essex/Suffolk]
ROLFE, (O)RAFFERTY, EVANS, PARSONS, SYMONDS [Berks/Hants/Wilts]
HILL [Staffs/Cambs/Berks]

-----Original Message-----
From: Lesley Robertson >Date: 04 December 1999 21:54Subject: Re:
KindredKonnections - Don't Waste Your Money

>>Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake wrote in message ...
>>>This is not to denigrate all commercial services. There are certain
>>areas where there is no such thing as a free lunch. If I want to go to
>>Edinburgh (travel + hotel), and pay 17 pounds or whatever it is now for
>>a full day in the GRO(S) archives, it isn't free. Therefore, to pay 6
>>pounds for index searches and then the cost of a certificate from the
>>Scots Origins website is excellent value, until such time as our
>>governments decide that such services should be free at the point of
>>access.
>>
>In this context, has anyone any idea why the GRO(not S) hasn't just
>recruited the Origins people to handle the English/Welsh records instead of
>re-inventing the wheel by designing another system which will have to go
>through the bugs/overload/server down cycle?
>Lesley Robertson
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