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From: "Peter Crosland" <>
Subject: Re: Online certificate ordering-50 year rule.
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 14:17:53 -0000
References: <c20t4m$j7u$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk> <200403021135.i22BZFSx049068@smtp2.freeola.com>


> The people who are flogging fake passports to illegal immigrants and
> criminals, etc, I am quite certain are not spending hours every day
> at the FRC ordering death certificates and then using them to create
> dodgy birth certificates and passports. The time spent wouldn't be
> worth their while!
>
> Passport and identity forgers have more sophisticated methods of
> turning them out, which is what the Home Office and police ought to
> be addressing, rather than making life unnecessarily difficult for
> genealogists.

I agree with you Roy! Is this a record?

The official answer I had to day was that it was because the site was still
experimental. I wonder how much longer before it goes live?


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